Quotes from Anne Rice

And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised to us, wrongly Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.

It was charming to be speaking in the old Latin. And his eyes, reflecting the light of the lamps, were filled with an honest excitement tempered only by dignity.

Rompió a llorar, cosa que yo nunca le había visto hacer. Y yo gocé de aquel instante pese a todo el dolor que contenía. Me dio vergüenza sentir aquello, pero no la solté. La mantuve abrazada con fuerza y tal vez la besé por todas las veces que no me había permitido hacerlo. Por un instante, parecíamos dos partes de una misma cosa.

The air was rushing past me. I was clinging to him, though I don't think I needed to, and we were out in the night, and we were moving towards the clouds.

The humming of the birds was becoming hypnotic, and again there came a low hiss of rain.

I thought dreamily of that supper when he had come upon me so stealthily and stared at me with such innocent and inquisitive eyes.

I carry the obligation as if she were still with me, as if even now I had to go and spend my hours in her shrine.

And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.

He was appropriately horrified and gave me a reproving glance, as if to say you needn't have told me that! But he was far too polite to say a word.

books, they offer one hope—that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.

I see that you are capable of secrecy but quite incapable of a lie.

Il vampiro era perfettamente candido e levigato, come scolpito nell'avorio, e il suo viso appariva esanime come una statua, a eccezione di quegli occhi verdi, ardenti come fiamme in un teschio, che scrutavano intensamente il ragazzo. Ma poi il vampiro sorrise con un velo di malinconia e la liscia massa bianca del suo volto si mosse ridisegnandosi con i tratti infinitamente flessibili e essenziali di un cartone animato.

Where could she have gotten these notions, except from the bits and pieces of electric dreams that she watched on a great screen I'd provided for her?

He didn't have to make the flowers fall," I said. "I taught him not to hurt things that were pretty. I taught him that when we were small.

Vengarse es el objetivo de aquellos que se sienten de algún modo derrotados. Yo no estaba vencido, me dije. Y siempre es mucho mas interesante pensar en la victoria que en la venganza.

none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

He looked at me, and his mouth worked the miracle of the ordinary smile.

I could scarcely keep myself from laying hands on him, from forcing him to my will, never mind his legendary strength, his gruesome temper. I'd lay hold of him and make him submit.

Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made by immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms.

He stood watching me, growing ever more calm, but certainly enrapt.

Lei non e' sempre stato un vampiro, vero? attacco'. No rispose l'altro. Avevo venticinque anni quando lo divvenni: era il 1791.

Stop dreaming of those chains in which she once bound Lestat unless you truly wish for her to bind you in them.

No creo en nada y eso me hace más fuerte de lo que piensas

There was no place for the poetry or history which had come from a greedy mind and heart.