WOMAN: Don't cry. We'll find her...

CLAUDIA: Mama...

WOMAN: Oh, ma cherie.

PIANO-TEACHER: The thumb girl! Mind the thumb!

DOLLMAKER: They are expensive, my dear. Maybe too expensive for a young girl like you...

LESTAT: Claudia! What have we told you?

CLAUDIA: Never in the house!

LESTAT: Give me some room.

LOUIS(V.O.): To me she was a child, but to Lestat a pupil, an infant prodigy with a lust for killing like his own. Together, they finished of whole families.

LESTAT: Wonderful! Wonderful! Now play something on a more somber note.

LOUIS (V.O.): Time can pass quickly for mortals when they're happy. With us it was the same. The years fly by like minutes. The city around us grew. Sailboats gave way to steamships disgorging an endless menu of magnificent strangers. A new world has grown around us. And we were all Americans now.