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Vampire Quotes by Anne Rice

66 Vampire quotes by Anne Rice

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A vampire feeling the steam of a hot drink can sense the warmth without drinking it. He remembers the last sunrise before his transformation, a moment he never forgets. He also says that being good means being gentle, careful, and not wasting anything.

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Let the flesh instruct the mind.

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“I see." said the vampire thoughtfully.”

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I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

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I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

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You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

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Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

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“I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.”

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“Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this…

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“Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.”

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A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

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I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

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“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.”

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Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

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“I am the Vampire Lestat, and nothing … not even this mortal body … is going to defeat me.”

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The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took…

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“That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more…

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“Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he…

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“I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and…

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“Yet their whispers slithered around me. And those scents, ah, not a one was like another. And as clearly as if spoken…

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Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're…

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My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet…

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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was…

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Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it…

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Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really…

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That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't…

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Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal…

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“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. I walked black streets…

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“I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in…

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Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity…

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I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity…

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I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to…

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“Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was…

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“You know nothing,' she said to him gravely, her voice so low that the slightest noise from the street interrupted it, might…

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“Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue Royale, and…

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As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the…

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“Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to…

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You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

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“I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.”

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Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

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Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

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