My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See? — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song. — Anne Rice Books Copy Share Image
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you… — Anne Rice Beauty 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 Destruction Copy Share Image
Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn,… — Anne Rice Cry Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results… — 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
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're… — Anne Rice Angel Copy Share Image
“Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But he could not go up to the room as yet, and seating himself on a stone step, his head on his… — 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 Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Dig deep, deep, my soul, to find the heart--the blood, the heat, the shrine and resting place. Dig deep, deep into the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I saw the great sparkling orbs of his eyes, the tiny red veins that reached for the dark centers, that warm hand… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for… — Anne Rice Another life Copy Share Image
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be… — Anne Rice Accidents Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people… — Anne Rice Beauty Copy Share Image
“That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil. That weakness, that refusal to compromise a fractured… — Anne Rice Character Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Advice Copy Share Image
“In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.” — Anne Rice Fiction Copy Share Image
“I saw these men and knew what they wanted, that this was vice, and despicable, and the price of it was Hell.” — 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
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures… — Anne Rice Adventure Copy Share Image
“But what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your… — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive. — Anne Rice Alive Copy Share Image
When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Don’t regret it when you don’t come to see me. I think I’m timeless. You’re here now and you’ve remembered me. That’s… — Anne Rice Regret Copy Share Image
...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then… — Anne Rice Moon Copy Share Image
Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets? — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. — Anne Rice Beauty Copy Share Image
“I am the Vampire Lestat, and nothing … not even this mortal body … is going to defeat me.” — Anne Rice Mortal 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 Death Copy Share Image
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his… — Anne Rice Cynicism Copy Share Image
