My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name… — 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
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when a house owns you and you know you have to get free of it, and go on… — 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
“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Ah forever!" I said. "I have such a love of that word, forever." "Yes, it is a timeless word," he said, raising… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Every time I stumbled and fell, something in me hardened, became worse. By the time I reached the castle gates; I think… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs - they're… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Ah, so much to ponder. But not now. Now was the time for the conjugal blessing of this new abode.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I'd drink your blood if I could and hook you into every memory inside me, every heartbreak, frame of reference, temporary triumph,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“One can't be a killer every moment of one's life. Some humanity is going to show itself now and then, some hunger… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If there is any sea as blue as the Caribbean I have never beheld it, and when it is seen at twilight,… — 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
