Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)

Like Angels Put in Hell by God (2022)

Bailey Bass: Claudia

Quotes 

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

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Oh, it's you who lost, Claudia, for the many hundredth time. I admire your steadfast pursuit of a game you clearly have no acumen for.

  Claudia : My massa taught me how to play, but only enough to occupy his time.

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

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis, I don't know what possessed me that night.

  Claudia : Three years ago. That night three years ago, he means.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I was someone I don't want to be anymore. I've changed. Let me prove it to you. I'm nothing without you. I'm nothing without both of you. If you want me to go away, just say so. I'll obey you. I'll leave your life forever.

  [Louis doesn't answer] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : This silence is cruel. And you were never cruel, Louis.

• Claudia : Let me go, Lestat.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : In Louis' hour of need? I'm afraid I can't allow that. He's very fragile right now. Worse than the last time you abandoned him, when you filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike.

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

• Claudia : He picked you over me.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Claudia... you left, without saying goodbye. Again. I'm sure it was an oversight, but still. You'd think your creator had earned the courtesy.

  Claudia : You didn't want me. You made me for Louis.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : And he needs you now more than ever. He's in a terrible state.

  Claudia : He said I could go. He picked you over me.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state. He'd grip it, tug at it, then, weak as he is, the stem would hold.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : She's coming up on 33.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : It's a lick and a promise in vampire years.

  Claudia : Maybe, but I'm not your child anymore. That's rule number five. I'll be your companion, your sister.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : It's not as simple as choosing a new family configuration. 'Now I'm your cousin.' 'Now I'm your aunt.' I am your maker!

  Claudia : But not my uncle or my daddy. I'm your sister or that's the door.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Claudia, hello. I've been calling quite often. I don't know if the operator is patching me through correctly.

  [Claudia stares without answering] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I brought something from Louis's favorite bookshop. 'The Book of Hours.' Extremely rare, 15th century. Silver and gold on the vellum, palettes of blue and old rose.

  Claudia : No one here wishes to speak with you.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Well, I know he's upstairs. I can see his silhouette. Perhaps we should let him decide if he wants to see me or not.

  [Louis throws Lestat's coffin off the balcony and it shatters on the street behind Lestat] 

  Claudia : How's that for an answer?

• Claudia : Who made you?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : His name was Magnus. He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed. He kept me for a week, locked in a room full of corpses. Some freshly killed, some bloated and black. But they all looked like me -- my coloring, my physique, my own eyes staring back at me from rotting faces. He fed on me every night and then he put me back in the tower with the lookalike corpses. I thought for sure I'd be one of them, but instead he turned me into this. No grand history of vampiric origins or physiology, no rules, no counsel. Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire. And then I was alone. I thought, 'I can't drink hot blood. I can't feed on others.' I cried. I called to God. I didn't want this. But I have a capacity for enduring. That's why I don't particularly like being abandoned.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : You're ugly when you act like that.

  Claudia : Better ugly than blind.

• Claudia : 'I Felt a Funeral in My Brain.' She also wrote one called 'A Coffin Is a Small Domain.' I mean, come on!

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Emily Dickinson is not a vampire.

  Claudia : How do you know?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Cause she's dead.

  Claudia : How do you know?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : She got a grave. She got a tombstone.

  Claudia : So do you.

• Claudia : [Crying]  Let me go, Lestat.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : In Louis hour of need? I'm afraid I can't allow that. He's very fragile right now. Worse than the last time you abandoned him, when you filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike.

  [Claudia shudders] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Well, you wouldn't talk of it. Louis insisted I not ask. I love our family, but the rules are, 'No secrets!' Fortunate for our family, when I put my mind to it, I can hear the thoughts of other vampires at a very great distance.

  Claudia : Bastard.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : He thinks of you often... Bruce.

  Claudia : Fucking bastard!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I couldn't agree more. What he did to you was in very poor taste. Could you imagine if something like that happened to you again? Louis would never forgive himself. Back in your cage, sweetheart. We endure each other for Louis' happiness. So come home, and make him happy. Because if you try this again, Claudia, I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket and zoom off on a motorbike. I'll turn your bones to dust.

• [conversing telepathically] 

  Claudia : I've been having a thought the last few days, Louis.

  Claudia : Yeah, what's that?

  Claudia : I think he killed Magnus. I think the vampire made him a slave. And he would be a slave no more than I would, and so he killed him. Killed him before he knew all the things he could've known. And now he's gone and made us slaves to him.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : We're not slaves. Maybe mindless accomplices.

  Claudia : No, we're his slaves, and I will free us both.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Claudia.

  Claudia : We have no more use for him, and he causes us misery with no horizon.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I don't like what you're feeling right now. You can't kill...

  Claudia : I love you, Louis. I don't say it often enough anymore.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : If you love me, then listen to me. I beg you.

  Claudia : If you're going to beat Lestat, you have to become Lestat. You have to think like he does and then five moves ahead of that.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : But he's not mortal. No illness can touch him. You threaten a life that will endure until the end of the world.

  Claudia : I am done enduring. I'm going to kill him.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : He'll destroy you if you try it.

  Claudia : No, Louis. I can kill him... And I want to tell you something else now, a secret of all secrets, between you and me... The secret is, Louis, you want to kill him too and you will enjoy doing it.