One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It gave me no hope to see him doing these simple things with the sluggishness of a somnambulist. It proved nothing more… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for… — 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
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're… — 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
Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall"… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these… — 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 am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“He glanced up at me and then the figure who was questioning him, and I struggled, because I couldn’t help it, to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.” — Anne Rice 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 Copy Share Image
“You're the mad one,' I said. 'If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music - which of course you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“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 Image
