Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.