“Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary… — Anne Rice Evil Copy Share Image
“The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great… — Anne Rice Children Copy Share Image
“Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a… — Anne Rice Serenity Copy Share Image
Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Who else would live in such an unguarded place except a woman for whom the forest was the world, he figured. And… — Anne Rice Children Copy Share Image
“God triumphs on the ruins of our plans'. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes,… — Anne Rice Failure 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… — Anne Rice Peace Copy Share Image
“If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you… — Anne Rice Drugs Copy Share Image
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of… — Anne Rice Bird Copy Share Image
“It was only that I’d suffered like that, hour after hour, that I’d gone into the circle of hell and come back… — Anne Rice Loneliness Copy Share Image
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority,… — Anne Rice Atheist Copy Share Image
This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of… — Anne Rice Audience Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of… — Anne Rice Blessed Copy Share Image
“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw… — Anne Rice Book Copy Share Image
“The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding… — Anne Rice Blunders Copy Share Image
Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No,… — 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 Giving Copy Share Image
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books,… — Anne Rice Anne-rice Copy Share Image
“I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon… — Anne Rice Knowledge Copy Share Image
Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“For what secrets, what truths had those monstrous creatures of night to give us? What, of necessity, must be their terrible limits,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to… — Anne Rice Goodness 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 Farewell Copy Share Image
I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have… — Anne Rice Lies Copy Share Image
“There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion—of our own kind, of all humankind,… — Anne Rice Life Copy Share Image
“ ‘She’s an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“and when I took my fingers down, there was the stain of the tears, tinged with mortal blood. And already there was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the… — Anne Rice Chaos Copy Share Image
His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Many Christians believe that the vast majority of those created by God will burn in Hell for All Eternity. Many Christians not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my… — Anne Rice Human soul Copy Share Image
“There were many markings in pencil, and those strange symbols again, dashed off, it seemed, revealing their opacity what a complex and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
