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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 16

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His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace

His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

Heart, Blood, Vampire

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

Morning, Farewell, Light

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

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Lying, Lovers, Lestat

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1060, Ballantine Books

I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.

Hurt, Stars, Believe

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.861, Ballantine Books

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.

Children, Fear, Dark

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

Hotel Lobby, Laughing, Patterns

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Self, Doe, Loathing

Anne Rice (2000). “Merrick: a novel”, Knopf Canada

[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?" "Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.

Believe, Important, Goodness

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.239, Ballantine Books

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

Men, Selfishness, Needs

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

I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think

Mother, Stars, Believe

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.861, Ballantine Books

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Thinking, World, Needs

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.110, Ballantine Books

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.

Looks, Way, Bears

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.133, Ballantine Books

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.

Suffering, Force, Endure

FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Feb 05, 2017

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

Light, Giving, Vampire

"Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. November 11, 1994.

It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living

Falling In Love, Dark, Smell

Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt

Forever, Drink, Lestat

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Doors, Answers, Literature

"The Vampire Lestat". Book by Anne Rice, 1985.

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.

Ghouls, Vampire, Literature

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Movie, Vampire, Casting

"A Look Inside Hollywood and the Movies : Interview With the Vampire's Picky Creator". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. August 22, 1993.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

Girl, Naughty, Vampire

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

If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

Book, Writing, Guy

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

Book, Handsome, Heavy

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

Love You, People, Want

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

Prayer, Guy, Waiting

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Might, Way, Happens

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