“I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“One can kill the gifts one is given, any of them and all of them, if one is determined to do so,… — 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
“And then the most evil idea came to me. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing… — 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 a system, in which anyone dictates our every move—be it a god, or a devil, or our subconscious mind, or our tyrannical genesis simply impossible. “Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident.… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Yes.’ He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. I stared at the fragments. ‘You don’t… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and… — 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
“Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his… — 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 the wonderful and beautiful things he'd loved. There was only the keen eye to appreciate it, the heartbreaking capacity to perceive talent in others all around...only a gentleman's means could have kept him close to the… — 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 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 its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, 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 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
