interview with the vampire (2022): episode 2, … after phantoms of your former self.
tw: murder, death, blood, strong language, all vampire things.
* did you always work for him? did you sign an nda?
* is it only work or are you and he…?
* you missed at least three or four endangered species.
* i want to apologize for my outburst earlier. i can assure you, it will not happen again.
* memory is a monster. we forget, it doesn’t.
* eh, can we turn down the music?
* two vampires walk into a church….
* the bliss was merely a stage in my transformation, pain followed.
* your body is confused. your lungs feel like water, your heart, fire. you feel as if you’re dying… because you are.
* a proper disposal is the penance of a sated vampire.
* we live off the blood of the living. lap up the blood of the deceased and it’ll suck you right down into death along with your victim.
* you were fucking loaded.
* your ears will pick up the world like a maddening symphony.
* your eyes will wander, led by your hunger.
* they were your brothers and sisters once but now they’re your savory inferiors.
* straight to the prettiest girl at the party. i admire the aesthetic.
* just to be clear here, gents, we are here to talk about farm equipment. am i right?
* the neck. bite the neck. no… no, you don’t bite the blood, you suck it.
* for our next carpet, i’m thinking persian.
* this is your home, now. breathe.
* you ain’t fucking hearin’ me!
* hey! that’s comin’ out of my pay!
* the sun gives life to everything but us. i should have taught you that.
* the life of a vampire has its challenges… and its rewards.
* i ain’t sleeping in a coffin.
* you’ve had a long life… and such an extraordinary one ahead.
* it’s okay… you can be on top.
* i got in that coffin on my own free will.
* in the quiet dark, we were equals.
* vampires are killers. apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
* don’t expect every reader to swallow that one.
* when i first started learning english, i abhorred it. every word felt like a doorknob falling out of my mouth.
* killing folks ain’t a second language.
* these are nightmares i’m having, not dreams.
* he’s lying, you know. he wants the job so he can steal from you.
* you gonna make me beg?!
* it’s not cheating with a woman because i can’t get pregnant.
* i’m gonna ditch this town and be somebody… or i’ll just go home.
* it’s a very distracting gift, the petty musings of meat.
* what am i thinking right now?
* the architects of our creation mean to humble us. we’re at the mercy of the other’s discretion.
* you chase after phantoms of your former self. i’ll break you of it.
* the curtains go up at eight.
* look what the wind blew in…
* i don’t remember inviting him but, please, take your overdressed self and have a fine time.
* i see you have a banjo band in your front yard…
* don’t come back fragile.
* haven’t heard a knock on my door… it’s half a mile both ways.
* you making me a uncle right here?
* you hide from me this long again, i’ll hunt you down and slap you sideways.
* well, you really do have a mind inside that head of yours, don’t you?
* you know, i had my doubts… but you really earned your 15%.
* i had powers now, and decades of rage to process, and it was both random and unfortunate, the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery. if not him, it would have been the next man.
* he disrespected me! he said i did a good job.
* you are a library of confusion.
* yes, let’s have this conversation again.
* couple of garish priests go missing, people say “fine, most likely kid fiddlers.” but this was an important man in town! the police will be looking for this man!
* i don’t like sleeping angry.
* for the record, if disrespect was done to you, i would have killed him myself.
* well, what can i do to make it up to you?
* how can i stop you? how can i say no to you?
* i’m sure mama would love to see you.
* i no longer kill. my last victim was in the year 2000.
* what on earth would a meth-addicted son of a coal miner in west virginia want with eternal life?
* you have to stop seeing them. they’ll grow fearful of you if they haven’t already.
* it’s a rite of passage for all of us.
* i ain’t never gonna have a family of my own, am i?
* you should just throw me in the incinerator and make another.
* you’re a challenge every sunset, and i wouldn’t have it any other way.
* i have a private box and i had tuxedos made… i’ve been neglectful of romance.
* he had a way about him, those first years.
* how many of us are out there? we can’t be the only ones.
* music pierced his damned soul… and any humans who were involved in the creation of it existed on an elevated plane in his eyes.
* i was moved to see he too had his human attachments.
* i don’t understand how someone like that can make it onto a stage.
* he removed a lifetime of confidence, of joy, in less than half an hour.
* well, i like to do it. i enjoy it.
* you don’t have to humiliate him.
* well, i didn’t say you had to enjoy it!
* kill them swiftly if you have to, but do it! embrace what you are! you are a killer!
* come now, love, let’s get you to the couch to die.* i was never going to be a natural. i was never going to savor the aftertaste.
* i try to have a human dish once a week to maintain the thread.
* it tastes like most human food… like paste, chalk, soap…
