Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give… — 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
Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't… — 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
You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had… — 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