devil’s minion bot

quotes from queen of the damned’s chapter and all things armand & daniel molloy every three hours | made with @gimmickbots

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I am lord and master of my own island, I am the Devil’s minion and he grants my every wish.

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(ARMAND) Were you with Mr. Molloy the entire dinner?
(REAL RASHID) He used the restroom for approximately five minutes, sir.
(DANIEL) Had a piece of halibut that still wanted to swim.

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Armand had reels of himself reciting poetry in Italian or Latin, or merely staring with his arms folded, a gleaming white presence slipping in and out of focus in eternally dim bronze light.

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All over New York he dragged Daniel, as he interviewed people on the nighttime streets.

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(ARMAND) Rashid. Did you and Mr. Molloy talk to anyone during dinner?
(REAL RASHID) Just the chef, when ordering, sir.

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Yet within six months he had dropped the movies for video cameras and must make his own films.

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But how many times could a mortal watch it? For Armand there seemed no end.

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(DANIEL) I don’t know. No point, other than fuck your boyfriend!

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He lost all supernatural composure and became utterly human, laughing till the tears rose in his eyes.

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(DANIEL) You were an ancient vampire. You could read any mind you want.
(ARMAND) I was in love.

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Then one scene in particular became Armand’s favorite: the dwarfs on a broken-down stage in Castelleone singing “Me and My Shadow” for Napoleon really sent Armand out of his mind.

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It would bring a slow and almost impish laugh from Armand, the bones cracking, the look in Hauer’s ice-cold blue eye. “That’s your friend, Lestat, there,” Armand whispered once to Daniel. “Lestat would have the... How do you say?... Guts?... To do that!”

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Over and over he watched Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, fascinated by Rutger Hauer, the powerfully built actor who, as the leader of the rebel androids, confronts his human maker, kisses him, and then crushes his skull.

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(DANIEL) I want to get out alive.
(RAGLAN) You want a book.
(DANIEL) I want… Both.
(RAGLAN) You fear Armand. You should fear the other one.

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Anything with blue skies enthralled him. Then he must watch news programs, prime time series, documentaries, and finally every film, regardless of merit, ever taped.

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Armand pulled him back against the building. It was useless. They could not get to Lestat. And they had no cover. Dragging Daniel after him, Armand retreated into the hall again.

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(ARMAND) My first memory. I’m being run down by slavers in Delhi. My second? Hm. An eager black hole.
(DANIEL) Oh God.
(ARMAND) I’ll keep digging. But I’m… Not hopeful there’s much more to you, Daniel, other than a hole.

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They studied books on astronomy and mounted giant telescopes on the roofs of the buildings in which they lived for a few days or a month at most.

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(ARMAND) In retrospect, the buffoon was in the audience scribbling in the margins, oblivious to the conspiracy uniting around him.
(DANIEL) Really?
(ARMAND) Yes.