Quotes from Anne Rice

the abominable British weather." It is a country "only a Druid could love

The British, they always have information. They drag their damned Indian tea and their London Times with them wherever they go.

I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is the thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.

Deep within us all are the seeds of hate for what is different. We do not have to be taught these things. We have to be taught not to give in to them! They are in our blood; but in our minds is the charity and the love to overcome them.

Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it—when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth—he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.

Divesting oneself so totally of the customary feelings of alienation and distrust that the subsequent acceptance was intellectually orgasmic.

I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon that knowledge, whether it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to give it to them.

One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.

She'd rinsed and dried the romaine lettuce with paper towels.

what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.

Happy Halloween, vampire boys and girls.

I found her more alluring than any woman I'd known in mortal life.

An accidental chaos blindly serving up the unaccountable beauty he now saw

The big problem is not How to explain the existence of evil in this world. It's How to explain the existence of good.

she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

You gave me your immortal kiss.

For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that's all. But life is more important than death.

Too many voices out there in the night.

For most people, words are just symbols for sounds, made on paper. For you, they can create all new worlds in your mind.

You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until your generation is in the earth. Then immortality will begin for you.

Ah forever! I said. I have such a love of that word, forever. Yes, it is a timeless word, he said, raising his mossy eyebrows as he looked at me. Time is ours, but forever belongs to God, don't you think?

The true crafty evil person is rare. It's bumbling that causes most of the misery of the world, utter stupid bumbling.

Woman rescued by Yeti!'How dare they make this into a joke.

You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that's why you're happy.