The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. — Anne Rice Change Copy Share Image
“I crossed the street. The snow felt rather good, but then I’m a monster.” — Anne Rice Snow Copy Share Image
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great. — Anne Rice Church Copy Share Image
I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay… — Anne Rice Buddhist Copy Share Image
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you… — Anne Rice Book Copy Share Image
“That's the glory of it; thousands of years have passed and yet you can follow Him so close!” — Anne Rice Glory Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this… — Anne Rice Books Copy Share Image
For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there… — Anne Rice Dark Copy Share Image
I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an… — Anne Rice Catholic 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
“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 Aches and pains Copy Share Image
“I’m that bad, am I?” I whispered, lips trembling. I was going to bawl again. “In all the world, with all the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more… — Anne Rice Beauty Copy Share Image
“This was that lucid and dangerous state with drinking, when everything began to shimmer; when there was meaning in the grain of… — Anne Rice Wine Copy Share Image
“The great adventure of our lives. What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?… — Anne Rice Adventure Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe… — Anne Rice Augustine 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
“I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he… — Anne Rice Beliefs Copy Share Image
“That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil. That weakness, that refusal to compromise a fractured… — Anne Rice Character Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Advice Copy Share Image
“Não importava que Deus no céu fosse católico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa mais profunda, mais antiga e… — Anne Rice Amor Copy Share Image
“Also there was something vampiric about rock music. It must have sounded supernatural even to those who don’t believe in the supernatural.… — Anne Rice Lestat Copy Share Image
Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I… — Anne Rice Claudia Copy Share Image
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I… — Anne Rice Amour Copy Share Image
“You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same… — Anne Rice Language Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in… — Anne Rice Beliefs Copy Share Image
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or… — Anne Rice Career Copy Share Image
I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Lasher,’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Divesting oneself so totally of the customary feelings of alienation and distrust that the subsequent acceptance was intellectually orgasmic.” — Anne Rice Acceptance 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 Death Copy Share Image
“I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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 Career Copy Share Image
I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger,… — Anne Rice Anger Copy Share Image
For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.” — Anne Rice Accents Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or… — Anne Rice Belief Copy Share Image
