Louis de Pointe du Lac quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Louis de Pointe du Lac

What's happening?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Your body is confused. Your lungs feel like water, your heart, fire. You feel as if you're dying... Because you are.

Lestat de Lioncourt

When I first started learning English, I abhorred it. Every word felt like a doorknob falling out of my mouth. Chapeau was a hat, étoile was a star, a pamplemousse was a grapefruit...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Killin' folks ain't a second language!

Lestat de Lioncourt

...but, but! When I started dreaming in English, that's when I embraced it. And now I have English consonants to thank for this astonishing jawline.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You should just throw me in the incinerator, make another one.

Lestat de Lioncourt

What a waste that would be. I have two centuries walked this earth and can report, you have no twin. No one as angry, as stubborn, as unaccommodating, as maddening...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Sound like trash to me, as loving, as dedicated, as thoughtful, as imperfectly perfect as you've become. You're a challenge every sunset, Saint Louis, and I'd have it no other way.

How old are you again, Uncle Les?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Hundred and sixty.

Lestat de Lioncourt

A hundred and fifty-nine.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Some sleep is what she needs.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Sedation is what she needs.

Daniel Molloy

So, it begs the question, where were all these diaries in 1973?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Scattered. One in New Orleans, another in Paris.

Daniel Molloy

Bullshit.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Long pause] Claudia was... everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine.

Daniel Molloy

You had a daughter.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I had a daughter.

Daniel Molloy

I've got two. The love is kind of...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

And if you were to come across their diaries and learn, in detail, how and when you failed them, would you share those failures with a brash young reporter you met at Polynesian Mary's?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Charlie's death ushered in one of the darkest eras in our lives. The oh-so-delicate balance of our oh-so-delicate household was shattered. The fantasy of happiness burst. Claudia was...

Daniel Molloy

A band-aid for a shitty marriage?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I was going to say... something else. But yes, that's almost certainly what she felt like.

Lestat de Lioncourt

You draw me into your gloom.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's your fault she's gone. If you hadn't pushed her...

Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

If you hadn't done your...

Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia. Claudia. [Scoffs] I cannot listen to this insanity about Claudia one more time. Bordel de merde. Il me chie dans la malle jusqu'au cadenas!

Daniel Molloy

Look, Charlie Manson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. Still, he was Charlie Manson.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Is that all you think of her?

Daniel Molloy

Mostly. I also think she makes you an Frenchy look like a couple of whiny, existential queens. Probably why she's a fuckin' gold mine. The girl who moves a million books.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I won't have her exploited.

Daniel Molloy

Won't matter what your intentions are. It's the world out there now. She's the single-shooter, Xbox, mouth-breather shit they crave.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You can put the diaries in a proper context.

Daniel Molloy

Context. Sure. Warn the world about a forthcoming apocalypse. Or maybe inspire a line of sexy Claudia Halloween costumes. Or a cool dismemberment trend amongst the suburban Sylvia Plath set. Once you put it out there, they decide what it is. It can get away from you.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Flaubert's style is so dense.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis Armstrong's in town tonight, playing at the Pelican. Should we make it a night of the two Louis?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

The absence of metaphor is so striking.

Lestat de Lioncourt

You sound like every pompous Sorbonne student I've ever eaten.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Should I do like you instead? Read the first ten pages of every book? Pass myself off as cultured?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Talking over Lestat] Use my middling command of literary canon to impress some hapless human I'm gonna kill in a few hours anyway.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Reading aloud a newspaper article] 'Rash of mysterious deaths at university libraries perplex authorities.' Listen to this. 'Housekeeping staff at Vanderbilt University tried to rouse students who appeared to have fallen asleep at their studies, only to discover that they were, in fact, deceased. Similar incidents have been recorded at the College of Charleston, Lincoln University in Jefferson City, and the University of Alabama.' It's her. It has to be her.

Lestat de Lioncourt

It could be her. But I am the one who is presently standing in front of you. And, unlike Claudia, I am a full-blooded adult with all the right appendages. So if my considerable considerables continue to be squandered... [Lestat storms out with Louis continuing reading]

Lestat de Lioncourt

She was a destitute little girl, destined to live an inconsequential little life.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

And we took it from her. We cursed her.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Holding a bleeding and beaten Louis while hovering in the air thousands of miles above New Orleans] I have waited, Louis. I have patiently waited, in vain, for you to love me as I love you. Just say it. Say, 'Lestat, I am never going to love you.' It would help me a great deal to hear that from your lips. Your quivering, hateful lips.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Let go of me!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Anything for you. [Lets go of Louis, who plummets to the ground]

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Reading aloud from Claudia's diary] 'Dear diary, am I gonna be a virgin every single time I do it? Won't my skin down there grow back like my hair does when I cut it?'

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Jesus.

Now, it is my sworn duty to notify the dry agents as to the wine cellar on the premises. I will refrain from contacting the Child Welfare League, but I don't like what I've seen in this home.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

And we'll make sure Police Chief Bardeen is informed how his men conducted themselves in the home of law-abiding, taxpaying citizens.

[Chuckles] You know, I'd add a second bed to the boudoir before you two go making accusations. I have no doubt you could carry the fines, but crimes against nature, that comes with a five-year prison term if convicted.