Anne Rice

Faye Perozich

Daerick Gross

Lestat recounts the story of how he became a vampire in eighteenth-century France

A Graphic Novel

Anne Rice's the Vampire Lestat

Only the impossible can do the impossible.

I read by candle or oil lamp all the books I could procure. I might as well have been Gabrielle trapped in her castle bedroom, save there was no furniture here. And the stacks of books reached to the ceiling in one room after another as I went to the next. Now and then I mustered enough stamina to break into a library or an old bookstore for new volumes, but less and less I went out. I wrote off for periodicals. I hoarded candles and bottles and tin cans of oil.

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but the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again. i mean the world looked different forever after, and even in moments of exquisite happiness there was the darkness lurking, the sense of our frailty and our hopelessness. 

i realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don’t find out the answer as to why we were ever alive. 

i saw the universe, a vision of the sun, the planets, the stars, the black night going on forever. and i began to laugh. 

but nothing natural seemed beautiful to me now! the very sight of a great tree standing alone in a field could make me tremble and cry out. 

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We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all. 

when I was corrected, which wasn't often, I knew an intense happiness because someone for the first time in my life was trying to make me into a good person, one who could learn things.

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