“Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden” — 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
“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
“But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Fear was once again breaking the shell around me so that something else could spring to life.” — 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
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
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 was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what… — 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
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
“I saw it, and I knew that he spoke the truth. I would always see it. I would see the spark of… — Anne Rice 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 Copy Share Image
“I wish you hadn't told her. If you must know, I could have done without your telling her I commited statutory rape… — 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 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
“You are the son of the Lord God! She said. That’s why you can kill and bring back to life, that’s why… — 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
“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
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
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or… — 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
“It's the way that life asserts itself, no matter what the circumstances. Of course it must be a miserable existence. How could… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature? — 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
Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life. — 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
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
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
“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
“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
As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle… — 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
“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