Quotes About Legacy

But death we are, and death we've always been.

Life is a gift. Immortality is a precious gift.

We live forever; but they don't come back.

The young reinvent the universe," he said. "And they give the new universe to us as their gift.

Remember me not for my weakness, for my sins, or for my poor judgment. But that I loved you.

Lestat,' she said, 'it is the larger scheme which means nothing.' … 'It is the small act which means all. Of course sickness and suffering will continue after I'm gone. But what's important is that I have done all I can.

And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn't do, or had to do, or failed to do

Everyone today has a story; the world's an archive.

You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until your generation is in the earth. Then immortality will begin for you.

how can you underestimate the effects of your books, your words, all of it on all the blood drinkers in existence?

If we wanted to survive, if we wanted to inherit the millennia as Thorne and Cyril, and Teskhamen and Chrysanthe had inherited them, as Avicus and Zenobia had inherited them, as Marius and Pandora and Flavius had inherited them, and as Rhoshamandes and Sevraine had inherited them—and as Seth and Gregory, now the very oldest among us, had inherited them—then we had to meet the future with respect as well as courage and count fear and selfishness to be small things.

It's Stella. Stella's got the gift and she'll get everything when I die.' 'And what's the gift, Miss Mary Beth?' my mother asked her. 'Why, Stella's seen the man,' Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. 'And the one who can see the man when she's all alone inherits all.

as the steps of the ancient always do, with

Amadeo, the world now is yours," my Master said. "You must look at the larger movements of history.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

I want to be read. I want to be valued. That is perhaps the only shot at immortality a human being can have.

One thing we can give each other is our history.

I am The Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less.

How many centuries must pass before the blood of so many has soaked deep enough into the earth to be forgotten?

Quinn,' she said, 'we live in houses that were built by people's dreams, and we have to accept that. We have to revere the dream and realize that someday the house will go to others after us. These houses are personalities in our lives. They have their roles to play.

I wonder if she had seen the future-that the Talamasca File on the Mayfair Witches would swallow Aaron's life, as surely as the Vampire Lestat swallowed mine.

The young reinvent the universe," he said. "And they give the new universe to us as their gift. But sometimes the young make terrible mistakes. The young need the wisdom of the old. The man smiled. They do and they don't, he said.

You dared to publish a chronicle using the name Merrick Mayfair. You dared to do this even though a great family by the name of Mayfair lives in this city and its environs to this day. You had no care when you did that.

Un monumento non ti dice che questo o quell'altro uomo è passato di lì, ma che ciò che ha provato in un punto del tempo e dello spazio continua. La luna che illuminava allora New Orleans sorge ancora. Finché saranno in piedi quei monumenti, essa sorgerà ancora. Questa sensazione, almeno qua... e là... resta identica.