~Lestat de Lioncourt
Welcome children to my personal favorite in the Garden, the place where I get to
share with everyone some of my favorite quotes, tidbits, and pieces of useless trivia that
have been passed on to me through the centuries. It gives me great pleasure to share this
with everyone, and please feel free to write me with your own contributions. I would love
to have a separate bush in the garden catering to the words that have touched my immortal
friends. These are in no particular order, just thrown together, maybe there is a pattern
but I think not.
(Note: New entries will be added periodically as I'm inspired, however they will appear between the paws. A blue paw will indicate new entries below. Lestat comes first and last always. ;)
"I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less. The light of the sun, the sustained
heat of an intense flame--these things might destroy me. But then again maybe
not."
Lestat de Lioncourt, The Vampire Lestat
"Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find
that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their
dreams with open eyes, and make it possible."
T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of
Arabia
"If ever there was in the world, a warranted and proven history, it is that of Vampires: nothing is lacking, official reports, testimonials of persons of standing, of surgeons, of clergymen, of judges; the judicial evidence is all-embracing."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The only thing I know is that I don't know anything."
Socrates
White Rose: Peace, Sickness
Yellow Rose: Friendship, Absence
Red Rose:
Love, Pain
"God kills Indiscriminately and so shall we, for no creatures under god are as we are, none
so like him as ourselves."
Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview with the Vampire
(Movie)
"As morning hues of sun swept fire caress your passionate face,
Alone with thee pure
desire to worship untold grace.
My heart would cry a silent prayer toward hours
swept apart,
your essence warms the evening air as I dance into your
heart.
Aramus, The Three Musketeers (Movie)
"God made him simple. Science made him a god."
Lawnmowerman 2
"Every myth is based on fact and every legend is grounded in truth."
Halloween
6
"You die when you kill. You think you deserve to die and you stint on nothing. But does
that make you evil? Or, because you comprehend what you call goodness, does that not
make you good?"
Armand, Interview with the Vampire (Movie)
"Stella, hush up. Be a witch, not a bitch for the love of heaven."
Mary Beth
Mayfair, Lasher
"We die when we get old. We are no more. No more."
Michael Curry,
Lasher
"I'm very stubborn and self-motivated, and I don't believe you should listen to comments.
You should write what you believe. You stick with your vision."
Anne Rice,
Prism of the Night
"I was a good marksman when I was a young man. A good actor on stage. And now I
am a good vampire. So much for our understanding of the word good."
Lestat de
Lioncourt, The Vampire Lestat
"It makes the lives of these beings seem attractive. You don't realize it at first; it's a
nightmare and you can't get out of it. Then all of a sudden, you're comfortable
there."
Jesse Reeves, The Queen of the Damned
"Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so
good."
Lestat de Lioncourt, the Queen of the Damned
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis
better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
"Every so often just say 'what the fuck?'. 'What the fuck?' gives you freedom and freedom gives you opportunity, so 'what the fuck?'.
"Each of us holds inside the map to the labyrinth...We are the spirit of collective
conscious, we create the pain and the suffering and the beauty in this
world."
Heavens Here on Earth, Tracy Chapman
"Have you ever been so alone you spent the night confusing a man in a
coma?"
Annie, While You Were Sleeping
"Does your road go no place?
Does it go someplace where you can't see?
If you
follow it anyway,
It just might lead you here to me."
Lost Souls, Poppy Z.
Brite
"I have nothing against your Christ. I am sure his blood tastes as sweet as anyone
else's."
Christian, Lost Souls
"He believed in them because they had to be there; otherwise there was no hope for him,
because he had always known he could not live his whole life in the real world. He had
faith that someday he would find them...or they would find him."
Nothing, Lost
Souls
"Everyone else is just cocktails."
Molochai & Twig, Lost Souls
"Sometimes everything could be alright, that pain did not have to come with magic, that
childhood never had to end."
Ghost, Lost Souls
"He marveled to himself that mortals frightened their children, and each other, with tales
of witches and warlocks, vampires and werewolves, while some of the vilest things in all
of creation lived next door to them, or up the street, or just down the
road."
Calder, For all Eternity
"He was a regular sorta guy, if you were willing to overlook the fangs and the fact that he
was 600 years old. Far be it from here to fall in love with a normal human being,
somebody with a last name. Oh, no. She had to lose her heart to a
vampire."
Daisy, Time without End
"...are some answers"
"Maybe I'm the Idiot"
Alanis Morissette, Can't Not
Tour, 1996
"You think the Paperboy likes you just because he rides by your hose every
morning!"
Mina to Lita, Sailor Moon
"Lita: Your Never gona make it as a cook.
Serena: Then I'll just eat!"
Sailor
Moon
"I wish I could kill you savor the sight, get into my car drive into the night. Then lay as I
scream to the heavens above; that i was the last one you ever loved."
Porcelain,
Better Than Ezra
"Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time."
Rewind, Better
Than Ezra
"If it feels good do it, and if it tastes fine then drink..."
Teenager, Better Than
Ezra
"Reaching for the Candle as I burn myself."
Lesson, Chalk FarM
"You frame the sun, shot out the stars, you pale the sky, and hung the
moon."
Hung the Moon, BTE
"Carbon dated clothes for the last time they were washed."
Return of the
Postmodern's, BTE
"It's been you against the world hasn't it?"
Thomas Moore, The Saint
(Movie)
"Maggie, when you grow up and you are incredibly beautiful and intelligent and posses a
certain sweetness that's like a distant promise to the brave. Can you please not beat down
every miserable bastard who comes your way just because you can? Can you not do
that?"
One Fine Day (Movie)
"For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the
laugh."
Pozzo, Waiting for Godot
Every lyric by NIN should be on this page, but since there are far to many you'll just have to go out and listen to them yourself. I promise you won't be disappointed. ;)
"i want to know everthing, i want to be everywhere, i want to fuck everyone in the world, i
want to do something that matters."
i do not want this, nin
"A thousand lips, a thousand tongues, a thousand throats, a thousand lungs, a thousand
ways to make it true, I want to do terrible things to you."
Suck, NIN
"One hates what one fears."
Anton LaVey
"I have acquired power without conscious effort, by simply being."
Anton LaVey
"i have lived so many lives all in my head."
i do not want this, nin
"And the mystery of your rythem is so feminine, Here I am and I want to take a hit, Of your scent cuz it bit so deep into my soul."
~I Want You, Third Eye Blind
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."
~Ludwig Borne
"For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside."
~Jelaluddin Rumi
"When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time, for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself."
~Montaigne
"What at this moment is lacking?"
~LIN-CHI
"In an utter emptiness anything can take place."
~John Cage
"To set up what you like against what you dislike - this is the disease of the mind."
~Seng-T'San
"More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind."
~Eric Butterworth
"The truly religious man does not embrace a religions; and he who embraces one has no religion."
~Kahlil Gibran
"Abandoning things is superior, pursuing things is inferior."
~Yen-T'ou
"I am a firm beleiver that sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing."
"Believe in me, in my words, in what I have said and what has been written down. I am
here still, the hero of my own dreams, and let me please keep my place in yours. I am the
Vampire Lestat. let me now pass from fiction into legend."
Lestat de Lioncourt,
Memnoch the Devil
