Since I spent like an hour on friday going through my copy of iwtv (1977 first Ballantine Books Edition) so here’s where every episode title is said in the book.
possible spoilers for the show; definitely spoilers for the nearly 50 year old book.
S1E1 “In throes of increasing wonder” page 13, Louis only every directly says the words “increasing wonder” (“From then on I experienced only increasing wonder”) about his first meeting with Lestat
S1E2 “…after the phantoms of your former self” page 81-82, said by Lestat (“You are in love with your mortal nature! You chase after the phantoms of your former self!”) when they’re having one of their many arguments about Louis’ feelings about killing, right before they turn Claudia
S1E3 “Is my very nature that of a devil?” page 73, after Louis and Lestat are driven off of Louis’ plantation & are rejected by a mortal woman Louis likes & thought would protect them
S1E4 “…the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child’s demanding” page 98, said by Louis about Claudia (in narration) (“She was simply unlike Lestat and me to such an extent I couldn’t comprehend her; for little child she was, but also fierce killer now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child’s demanding)
S1E5 "a vile hunger for your hammering heart’ page 116, Louis to Claudia, telling her the story of how she was turned ("I felt for you again, a vile unsupportable hunger for your hammering heart, this cheek, this skin.”) While S2E7 gives us more context on how Claudia was turned, in the book it was very different– Louis just straight up saw her and couldn’t resist nearly killing her, & a few days later Lestat decides to turn her to save their marriage
S1E6 “Like angels put in Hell by God” page 148– Louis says this to a priest in confessional after Lestat ‘dies’. (“I am not mortal, father, but immortal and damned, like angels put in hell by God.”)
S1E7 “The thing lay still” page 138, Louis’ description of Lestat’s dead (ish) body
S2E1 “What can the damned really say to the damned?” page 168, Louis contemplating what he might find in Eastern Europe as he and Claudia sail to Europe.
S2E2 “Do you know what it means to be loved by death?” page 224, said by Santiago in basically the exact same context, although the play is different.
S2E3 “No pain” page 225, said by Armand, who is onstage & is the one who kills the woman in the first performance we see at Theatre des Vampires
S2E4 “I want you more than anything in the world” page 284, said by Armand to Louis when they’re on a little date in this abandoned tower Armand likes to hang out in, notably after Louis turns Madeline without approaching Armand about it; I believe he also repeats it twice same as the show
S2E5 “Don’t be afraid. just start the tape” page 3; said by Louis to Daniel basically the same way it happens in the show.
S2E6 “Like the light by which God made the world before He made light” page 142, something Louis says while contemplating his existence directly after Lestat 'dies’. (“I had now lived in two centuries, seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other, been eternally young and eternally ancient, possessing no illusions, living moment to moment in a way that made me picture a silver clock ticking in a void: the painted face, the delicately carved hands looked upon by no one, looking out at no one, illuminated by a light which was not a light, like the light by which God made the world before he Had made light.”) (jesus, anne. i thought i wrote horribly long sentences)
S2E7 “I could not prevent it” page 307, said by Armand, also repeated twice like he does in the show, although this is said as he’s saving Louis rather than in the present day interview
S2E8 “And that’s the end of it. There’s nothing else” page 341; idk if this is the actual episode title, but it’s what wikipedia is telling me and it makes sense enough. The last thing Louis tells to Daniel before ending the story
under the cut– other lines i remember from the show that i underlined while reading the book; please add on if you have any more or correct anything i got wrong
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