1. "Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!"
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
2. "Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
3. "I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew."
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
4. "It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words."
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
5. "Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth"
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
6. "There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead."
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
7. "It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things."
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
8. "I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it."
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
9. "You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
10. "Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!"
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Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned