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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 13

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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Glasses, Singers, Way

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1226, Ballantine Books

The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

Night, Blood, Ideas

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Thinking, Perfect, Devil

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.448, Ballantine Books

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

Perfect, Devil, Lestat

"The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 3)". Book by Anne Rice, September 12, 1988.

And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.

Heart, Europe, Suffering

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.157, Ballantine Books

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

Lying, Knows

Anne Rice (2001). “Blood and gold, or, The story of Marius”

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Enemy, Dawn, World

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.3695, Ballantine Books

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

Mind, Finest, Colour

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2914, Ballantine Books

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

Eye, Devil, Pale

Anne Rice (2009). “The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6”, p.34, Random House

In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

Beautiful, Children, Eye

I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.

Eyelashes, Ankles, Saws

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

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

Sweet, Shameful, Insipid

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2444, Ballantine Books

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

Saint, Chapel

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

Judging, States, Feels

Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.

Queens, Destiny, Evil

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Writing, Typewriters, People

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Book, Writing, Character

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Christian, Jobs, Fighting

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Halloween, Heart, Rose

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.699, Ballantine Books

We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.

Summer, Rain, Struggle

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

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Age, World, Taste

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.50, Ballantine Books

But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

Mother, Children, Thinking

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1263, Ballantine Books

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Soul, States, Knows

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

Growing Up, Mean, Vampire

"Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". Drama, Horror, www.imdb.com. 1994.

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt

Past, Fire, Vision

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.757, Ballantine Books

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