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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 14

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I assume I don't need an introduction.

I assume I don't need an introduction.

Needs, Assuming, Introduction

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

Fire, Light, Vampire

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.410, Ballantine Books

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Giving, Missing, Vampire

I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.

Stars, Powerful, Memorable

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.

Kindness, Persistence, Moon

Anne Rice (1999). “Pandora”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.

Struggle, Personal Knowledge, Years

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Soul, Desire

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.256, Ballantine Books

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

Pain, Grief, Fate

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.106, Ballantine Books

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Ghouls, Vampire, World

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Natural, Intoxication, Forbidden

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.

Hands, House, Ashes

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

Moon, Secret, Ifs

Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.248, Random House

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

Beautiful, Angel, Snakes

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2056, Ballantine Books

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

Dream, Reality, Mad

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.254, Ballantine Books

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

Love You, Want, Needs

Anne Rice (2003). “Blood Canticle”, Knopf Canada

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

Grieving, Light, Jewels

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Thinking, People, Ordinary

Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.7, Random House

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now.

Beautiful, Men, Stories

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1006, Ballantine Books

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

Appreciation, Memories, Insight

Anne Rice (1996). “Servant of the Bones”, Random House Large Print Publishing

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

Men, Names, Giving

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.835, Ballantine Books

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.

Water, House, Mind

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.733, Ballantine Books

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

Ties, Mad, Looks

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Tick, Clock

Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.269, Random House

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

Tragedy, Thee, Behinds

He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.

Book, Reading, Long

Anne Rice (2012). “The Wolf Gift”, p.373, Random House

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