Quotes from Anne Rice

When it comes to death, I fear I shall be met by nothing, but I hope I will be embraced by everything.

No te das cuenta? Yo no soy el espíritu de mi época. Tengo problemas con todo y siempre los he tenido. ¡Nunca me he sentido a gusto en ninguna parte ni con nadie!

What does it mean to write? David, you'll never see this question repeated, because with each page I understand more and more-I see the patterns that have before eluded me, and driven me to dream rather than to live.

We live in a world of accidents finally, in which only aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street

I came because I could resist it. I came because perhaps I didn't quite believe in you. I didn't believe in spite of all I'd read and been told.

A need to apologize stole over me again, perhaps because Lestat seemed lost in his judgment of the place.

I wanted my house, my children, Amadeo, Bianca. I wanted my Venice. I wanted my mortal world.

Probablemente. Quizá lo que trato de decirte es que si vamos a estar juntos durante mucho tiempo, deberás acostumbrarte a mí. Tendrás que habituarte a la evasión. Así es como yo soy.

I pray that my stories will keep you from destroying me.

I was careless, I was all too softened by human emotion. I was too greedy for love.

Slowly, I managed to rise from this cold and handsome grave which I had fashioned for myself, and I did at last, after great effort, sit on the cold marble floor, seeing the glint of golden walls through a bit of light that seeped into the chamber around the edges of the upper door.

The impossibility of truth being served by generalities, and the impossibility of learning proceeding without them.

I wanted those waters to be blue. And they were not.

Essere ateo è probabilmente il primo passo per giungere all'innocenza», continuò Marius. «Perdere il senso del peccato e della subordinazione e il falso rimpianto per le cose perdute.» «Quindi, per innocenza tu non intendi la mancanza di esperienza ma l'assenza di illusioni.» «L'assenza del bisogno di illusioni», rispose lui.

Where was he now, my beauteous pupil? I listened but I heard nothing.

I wonder if she had seen the future-that the Talamasca File on the Mayfair Witches would swallow Aaron's life, as surely as the Vampire Lestat swallowed mine.

What am I, child? Sometimes I think I know not. And sometimes I think I know only too well. Study in my absence. Waste nothing. And I'll be back to you before you know the hour. And then we'll speak of Blood Kisses and secrets and meantime tell no one that you belong to me.

or charms to drive off panic, or agony, of those who saw in the final careless, dissonant moments no tears perhaps or heard no pledge that I would mourn you forever.

every social problem is observed in relation to 'norms' which in fact never existed, people

You know, we could play a game. We meet and I start talking, and slap damn, you kill me when I take a verbal turn you don't like.

He glanced at me again, a flash of brilliant eyes and a smile that was gone in an instant as I looked back to the man in the chair.

In a flash I saw the boy in the man's eyes. Only it could not be true. I could not have such luck. For the boy had beauty as bountiful as Bianca's. I did not count upon it.

fancy themselves 'deprived' of luxuries and peace and quiet which in fact were never common to any people anywhere at all.

Do you know how it wounds me to leave behind the one city in the world with which I'm truly in love?