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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 4

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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets,

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.

Sweet, Spring, Home

"Fictional character: Louis". "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles", www.imdb.com. November 9, 1994.

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

Real, Men, Evil

Anne Rice (1977). “Interview with the Vampire: A Novel”

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

Sleep, Mystery, Horror

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.4, Ballantine Books

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Thinking, Long, Touching

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.636, Ballantine Books

Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.

Heart, Paris, Promise

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

Hunting, New Orleans, Vampire

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.415, Ballantine Books

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Tragedy, Way, Life Is

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

Past, World, Superstitions

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.690, Ballantine Books

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

Beach, Ocean, Eye

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.22, Ballantine Books

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Umpires, Soul, Secret

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

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

What Matters, Matter, Increase

Anne Rice (2009). “The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6”, p.175, Random House

Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this-that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.

Life, Stars, Moon

Anne Rice (2014). “Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles”, p.102, Anchor

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

Writing, Character, Thinking

"'Fifty Shades of Grey' shines light on erotic fan fiction" By Stephanie Goldberg, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

Atheist, Cocky, Years

Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Self, Long, Doubt

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.87, Ballantine Books

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

Night, Vampire, Newborn

"Fictional character: Louis". "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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.

Voice, Long, Profound

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

Mind, Vampire, Flesh

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.190, Ballantine Books

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Giving, Suffering, Our Words

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

Weak, Pathetic

Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.

Soul, Church, Vampire

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

Children, Sight, Vampire

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.754, Ballantine Books

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

Believe, Angel, Vampire

Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Reality, Evil, Literature

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Inspirational, Life, Writing

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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