TYGER, T Y G E R ( the starts threw down their spears )

quotes
A few of my favorite quotes by or including David.

"I developed a passion, shall we say, for this boy Carlos, the very first week. I was absolutely swept away; all we did was drink and make love for days and nights on end in my suite in the Palace Hotel. Quite truely obscene." - David Talbot [on his mortal life], The Tale of the Body Thief

David: What I think is that when you make a book, you tell the tale as you would like to know it!
Armand: I see no great wisdom in that.
David: Well, then think, for most speech is a mere issue of our feelings, a mere explosion. Listen, note the way that you make these outbursts.
Armand: I don't want to.
David: But you do, but they are not the words you want to read. When you write, something different happens. You make a tale, no matter how fragmented or experimental or how disregarding of all conventional and helpful forms. Try this for me.
-The Vampire Armand

"...but then, perhaps normality is always an illusion. Who am I to say?" -David Talbot, Merrick

"Once you choose death, Louis, you can't choose life again." - David Talbot [Responding to Louis de Pointe du Lac], Merrick

"Maybe we are asking the wrong question, Maybe blood doesn't matter to the gods. Maybe blood matters to us. Maybe we've made it the vehicle of Divine transmission. Maybe that's something which the world can move beyond." - David Talbot [Responding to Louis de Pointe du Lac], Merrick

"We hurried on. I wasn't at all sure that Honey would do anything of the sort. It seemed far more likely that Honey would bring the temple down on our heads." -David Talbot, Merrick

"I need you so much now, [Lestat]. I need you if only to say goodbye to him." - David Talbot, Merrick

"I was certain that Louis would rouse himself from his solemn silence and protest against Lestat's domination, but he did nothing of the sort. In fact, I detected in him a visible self-confidence which he had not posessed in the past." - David Talbot, Merrick