Quotes from Anne Rice

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Z ponurych proroków wieków minionych nowy wiek uczyniÅ' gÅ'upców

I was a human being once," said the younger ghost. "I was a blood drinker for centuries after that. And I am a ghost now. And my soul has been my soul in all three forms.

Those who desire power want to

buckled under the weight of a loneliness so terrible I would have chosen death then if only I'd had such a choice.

My father who art in hell, Lestat be your name.

I'd known for a long time why I loved history. It was because the historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny—and this was, of course, a lie.

What can the damned really say to the damned?

I can see that you don't know your own strength in this body any more than you did in the other." "Strength? What strength! This is a weak, flopping, sloshy, repulsive collection of nerves and ganglia. Don't even mention the word 'strength.' 

He was too fascinated with this ghost of Magnus. So many questions came to his mind: "Can you eat, can you drink, can you make love, can you taste?" "No," said Magnus, "but I can see very well, and I can feel hot and cold in a pleasurable way, and I have a sense of being here, being alive, occupying this space, being tangible, and having a tempo in time.…

Write the book you want to read

Because if the Romans, the Greeks, the Hebrew scholars, and the Christians all describe the same entities, and issue the same warnings and formulae for controlling them, then surely that is something not to be dismissed.

Worry stops your ears to the real music. Worry doesn't let you fold your arms around the bones of those you love.

True evil in this world is done by those with no imagination.

Heaven and hell wait for the young. Heaven and hell hover beyond the ocean before us and the sky spreading above us.

Son tu conciencia y tu voluntad las que deben mantenerte vivo.

can live without God. I can even come to live with the idea there is no life after. But I do not think I could go on if I did not believe in the possibility of goodness.

I thought the curse of memory is this: Everything is ever present.

No te enamores tanto de la noche como para perder tu camino.

I suppose we could people the world with vampires, the three of us,' she said.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Fool, you never caused it!" said the voice. "Fool, you think you caused that to happen to us? You never caused anything. Fool, you couldn't make a curse to save your soul!

our soul, once set free, seeks only to return.

And you called me mad, time's martyr, a vagrant Cassandra corrupted by too long a vigil on this earth.