Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And it isn’t only that I don’t believe it. I can’t. “I can’t believe it because my reason tells me that such… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity… — 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
It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Killing is no ordinary act,' said the vampire. 'One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.' He shook his head. 'It is the… — anne rice Copy Share Image
“Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary… — Anne Rice 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
“If only we would wake from (these) states of oblivion with some certain sense that there was no mystery to life at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“ ‘She’s an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only… — 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
“But in every family there are bad people, and weak people, and some people who can't or won't withstand the trials of… — 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 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
Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew… — 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
“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart… — 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
