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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 12

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It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

Spiritual, Heart, Men

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

Choices, Focus, Energy

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

Compassion, Knowing, Evil

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.295, Ballantine Books

I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.

Eye, Thinking, Water

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.329, Ballantine Books

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

Hate, Love You, Hatred

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.313, Ballantine Books

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

Fall, Evil, Depth

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.691, Ballantine Books

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

Vampire, Made, Knows

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

Book, Mean

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.

Inspirational, Children, Angel

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat

Strong, Hurt, Eye

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1084, Ballantine Books

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

Thinking Of You, Love You, Wish

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.8, Ballantine Books

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Quiet, Masters, Teach

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.101, Ballantine Books

How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

Children, Heart, I Love Him

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

Pathetic

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.36, Ballantine Books

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!

Running, Hate, Jealous

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.769, Ballantine Books

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Fear, Hands, Warning

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

Evil, Forgive Me, Forgiving

Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

Queens, Lasts, Firsts

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.257, Ballantine Books

From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.

Dream, Lying, Heart

Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.

Art, Flower, Home

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Long, Killing, Immortal

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2002, Ballantine Books

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Water, Losing Someone, Patterns

Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.176, Ballantine Books

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

Mean, Thinking, Endless

Anne Rice (1993). “Lasher”, Alfred A. Knopf Canada

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.

Memories, Yield, Long

"Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles, Book 8)". Book by Anne Rice, October 16, 2001.

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

Killing Others, Vampire, Penalties

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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