ANNE RICE
"The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation."
"Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on."
"The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply."
"Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long."
"But in every family there are bad people, and weak people, and some people who can't or won't withstand the trials of life, and who fail spectacularly." -Angel time
"Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him? If my tears spilled now, he would see them. If I trembled now, he would know." -
Blood and Gold
"People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams." -Angel Time
"One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world." -
The Tale of the Body Thief
"If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you and made you unsure of what you knew and didn't know." -
The Wolf Gift
"The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others." -
Servant of the Bones
"Be kind. Always if you have a choice be kind." -Servant of the Bones
"So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil and we will all go home in the end." -The Tale of the Body Thief
"I believe that through our finest efforts, we will succeed finally in creating heaven on earth, and we do it every time that we love, every time that we embrace, every time that we commit to create rather than destroy, every time that we place life over death, and the natural over what is unnatural, insofar as we are able to define it." -The Witching Hour
"I have never in my whole existance seen the laws of nature broken, and I have always called it the savage garden. The butterfly snared in the spider's web - the wildebeast lying on the velt as the lions come to lap the blood from the wound in it's throat." -The Vampire Lestat
"So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil and we will all go home in the end." -
The Tale of the Body Thief
"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars." -
Interview with the Vampire
"I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful." -
The Wolf Gift
"I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will." -The Vampire Armand
"Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you." -
The Vampire Armand
"Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes." -The Vampire Armand
"No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems." -
Blood and Gold
"Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge." -The Tale of the Body Thief
"The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance." -
Pandora
"We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge." -
Vittorio: The Vampire
"Every moment must be first known and then savored." -
Interview with the Vampire
"When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true desires- what we would have when that which we do have so sorely disappoints us." -The Mummy
“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.” -The Vampire Lestat
"And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus." -The Mummy
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