Claudia quotes from Interview with the Vampire

It's funnier when they fight in French. And, diary, you'd think a girl whose mama died in childbirth, whose daddy gave her away to a mean old auntie who beat her 'cause no one said she couldn't, who died in a fire but came back by the blood magic of two demons, well, you'd think that girl wouldn't know what funny was. But you'd be wrong, diary. And if I told you, dumb diary, that that same girl was being raised to kill like her two demon parents did, to take two souls a day so she can stay in the same flat-chested, hairless-crotched, 14-year-old baby doll body as her mind and spirit turn 19, 20, 25, 63, 358, you dumb, dumb diary, I'd bet you'd say to anyone who'd listen, 'Fun? Fun? How does she even get up in the morning?' Well, let me tell you something, you stuck-up, flower-covered, three-dollar, fancy fuckin' paper diary, I'm doin' just fine. And how do I know that? 'Cause the first man I killed called me the Devil, and the last boy I killed, the last boy I'll ever love in this world, called me an angel. So that means I'm on the right path. And that means there's so much more fun out there to have. I'm just gettin' started.

[To Louis] He treats us like shit and you take it! Why is that? [To Lestat] And you, cruel as the Devil ever made, to refuse me one love when you've got two! [Scoffs] White girl, down in Algiers, sings torch songs with a flat, no-nothin' ass. Been following you, Uncle Les. You ain't been your careful self. [To Louis] He's gotten tired of us, Daddy Lou. The housewife and the mistake.

Massa's had so much loss in his life. Lord couldn't ask him to bear any more.

Poor massa and his pain. It's an honor just to sleep under massa's roof.

We're his slaves, and I will free us both.

Louis needs Paris. I don't know what I need. Maybe a new brain in my head. Why can't I tell him this? I suppose I'm afraid my joylessness will take away his happiness, and maybe I don't want his feelings to depend on mine anymore. Maybe I want to be joyfully joyless. A forever switch of wild opposites at play.

How does it work, love between two men?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It works like... I don't know. Works like love.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Now here's a treat I think you're ready for. This is what the meat calls a 'lover's lane,' and by my estimation, no blood is sweeter. Young people, swollen with passion, denied spirits by this senseless prohibition, park along this lonely stretch to contemplate that most mysterious of mathematical equations -- how one plus one... becomes one.

They come out here to do math?

Lestat de Lioncourt

You've been too sheltered, my belladonnic beauty.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia has expressed an interest in going home.

Grace de Pointe du Lac

It is late for a young lady...

The smell is awful.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Hmm. Wakes were invented in places where it snows.

How old are you again, Uncle Les?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Hundred and sixty.

Lestat de Lioncourt

A hundred and fifty-nine.

Lestat de Lioncourt

How was college? Magna cum? Summa cum? Phi Beta Kappa?

I've read a lot of books. Started with Persia and Babylon, the old gods who longed for blood. A lot of it was popcorn, but a few old tomes. A Romanian tract on 'vampirs.' A strange, old Hungarian text, 'Masticatione Mortuorum,' the 'chewing dead.' I plan to leave for that part of the world as soon as I can.

Lestat de Lioncourt

So... quick stop home to do laundry before you fuck off for good.

A quick stop to pick up Louis.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Perused a few folklore anthologies, and now you're going to cross the ocean and take on a society of monsters.

If what I read is lies, then tell me what's true. [Lestat stares without answering and Claudia scoffs] Seven years and what's changed, other than you need a housekeeper?

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Dragging Louis by the throat] I fought myself a million times, fought my nature, controlled my temper. I never once harmed you.

Uncle Les!

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Stops] It's 'Uncle Les' now suddenly?

Let him go! He didn't do nothin'! Let him go! It's me you want!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Listen to me, and listen very carefully, my infant death. It was never you! [To Louis] I chose you! [Bites Louis's neck and flies off with him]

Lestat de Lioncourt

The vampires out there are vicious. [Observing Claudia's facial expression] Oh... but you've learned that already. Who did you meet out there in the American hinterland? Read her, Louis.

That's it, keep him scared. [To Louis] That's his way.

Lestat de Lioncourt

The vampires in Europe are much, much worse.

[To Louis] But I think *he's* scared.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I never asked. How did Charlie taste? Like the love you'll never really know?

[To Louis] And when he's scared, he ridicules.

Lestat de Lioncourt

The prodigal daughter.

I've come to apologize. I put you both in a bad spot. I wasn't right in my head. I am now.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Apology not accepted.

[Telepathically] Come with me! Come with me, Louis!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis...

[Aloud] I thought I could live without you, but I was wrong.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis. [Shouts] Louis!

[Telepathically] His love is a small box he keeps you in. Don't stay in it.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Shouting] A thousand nights of sulking, and the first sight of her, you are just gonna up and leave me?

[Shouting aloud] Please, come with me! Let's meet vampires worthy of your love!