Quotes from Anne Rice

The idea was simply that there was somebody who knew everything, somebody who had seen everything. I did not mean by this that a Supreme Being existed, but rather that there was on earth a continual intelligence, a continual awareness. And I thought of it in practical terms that excited me and soothed me simultaneously.

There would be no twilight, I realized that. Ah, very sad indeed. But as a vampire I often beheld the twilight. So why should I complain?

I am the Vampire Lestat, and nothing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not even this mortal body Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is going to defeat me.

I've loved you more than any being in all the world whom I've ever loved.

Maybe we do go home, finally.

Tonio Treschi was that half man, that less than man that arouses the contempt of every whole man who looks upon it. Tonio Treschi was that thing which women cannot leave alone and men find infinitely disturbing, frightening, pathetic, the butt of jokes and endless bullying, the necessary evil of the church choirs and the opera stage which is, outside that artifice and grace and soaring music, very simply monstrous.

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that women would make and what women have to teach men. And only when men can be taught, will they be allowed to run free among women again!

After all, it is a lot of trouble to hate people, isn't it? And a lot of trouble to be angry, and a lot of trouble to bother with such abstract notions as guilt or revenge.

I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I would have frightened her, it was that the desire to kill her was almost overpowering. Some fierce purely male instinct in me wanted to claim her now simply because I had claimed her in another way before.

I understand the very definition of hate when I think of you.

So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play.

We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know.

Lord God, to be born with no talent is bad enough, but to have a macabre and febrile imagination as well is a curse.

as she pulled away the shirt and jacket like so much wrapping paper on a gift.

Love is the only defense we ever have against the cold meaninglessness around us.

He thought of the Englishman at the bar in the lobby again. That's what had brought it all back — the Englishman remarking to the bartender that he'd just come from New Orleans, and that certainly was a haunted city.

Do you want to come with me now? DO YOU WANT TO COME WITH ME INTO THIS NOW? I hide nothing from you, not my ignorance, not my fear, not the simple terror that if I try I might fail. I do not even know if it is mine to give more than once, or what is the price of giving it, but I will risk this for you, and we will discover it together, whatever the mystery and the terror, just as I've discovered alone all else.

But what endures is what has always mattered: love - that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good - that hope will be realized through love.

El caos era el vacío sin sentido de la vida cotidiana

I'm ashamed, ashamed that I want you and that it sustains me to think, just to think, that because of all you've lost, you might love me.

Delicious it was, the hatred between us, or so I thought. Such unfamiliar excitement, to have him there to ridicule and despise.

I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well.

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.

Vengeance, blind and sterile and contemptible.