He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And I? What am I? Do I live? Or am I always walking in death? Forever in love with time?” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that’s all. But life is more important than death.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad—for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Yet their whispers slithered around me. And those scents, ah, not a one was like another. And as clearly as if spoken… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing tin pans all over, pouring water on pillows, making clocks chime… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If I could, I'd deliver you from old age and death, from aches and pains, from the blandishments of ghosts, from the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“She had no idea, really, what it meant to see a man's arm ripped out by the root, to see a head… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I wanted love and goodness in this which is living death,' I said. 'It was impossible from the beginning, because you cannot… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“That one, there,” Tonio murmured, but the weight of his suspicion was breaking him, sickening him. Send death for me, like that,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“all you have to lose in death, no matter how long you’ve lived, is the present moment in which you die.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It's always the young ones who end it. The ones for whom mortality holds magic. As we grow older it's eternity that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“the death of another person is perhaps the only genuine supernatural event we ever experience.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There had never been any talent, any talent to draw or paint or to make music or to write or to make any of… — anne rice Copy Share
“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows what it… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can… — Anne Rice Copy Share
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If… — Anne Rice Copy Share
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that… — Anne Rice Copy Share