Quotes from Anne Rice

With vampiric dexterity I slipped into shadowy gardens and listened at the open doorways of the dimly lighted villas as those inside talked softly over dinner or listened to the delicate music of a young boy accompanying himself with a lyre.

I think the Elders thought in their venerable minds, and God knows, I don't know their venerable minds, that the Declaration would bring certain of our members back to us who had been inducted into your ranks.

I had no fear of her recognizing anything abnormal in Lestat, what with his tanned skin, except perhaps his excessive beauty.

Her cool confidence chilled me. It chilled me that she had so fearlessly touched me, that nothing in my vampire nature repelled her, but then I could well remember how Lestat in all his subdued glory had attracted me. Was she attracted? Had the fatal fascination begun?

beauty meant nothing because it came from the despair inside him, and it had nothing to do with the despair finally, because the despair wasn't beautiful, and beauty then was a horrid irony?

El cabello me caía sobre los hombros desnudos como un manto protector. Tenía los pezones duros, y me pregunté si ese extraño, ese conocedor de los entresijos del mundo sexual secreto, había notado que mi entrepierna estaba húmeda.

A greedy sense of goodness overcame me that I wasn't damned. I felt too much love.

Perhaps he had worked a vague charm, and she was giving forth her deepest thoughts.

Was it the moment in which I knew my soul most completely, the moment in which I acknowledge that this would be a child of my power, my immortality, a pupil of all I knew?

We were living in Louisiana then. We'd received a land grant and settled two indigo plantations on the Mississippi very near New Orleans.…

Goblin is without a doubt the most potent of the spirits, but there are other ghosts here as well.

It was my own head, in semi-profile, carved skillfully from a fine piece of double-strata sardonyx so that the image was entirely white and remarkably detailed. The background was a pure and shining black.

I never found another like him, with so much passion and so many happy delusions, but then I never much looked.

what is the experience of sex if you have never had it.

What did it show of me? A long oval face, with features that were too delicate-a nose too narrow, eyes round with round eyebrows and a full cupid's bow mouth that made me look as if I were a twelve-year-old girl. No huge eyes, no high cheekbones, no rugged jaw. Just very pretty, yes, too pretty, which is why I'd scowled for most of the photographs taken for the portrait; but the artist hadn't saved that scowl into the face.

I never laugh at

My grief for Aaron would never go away, and I'd endured it for years without a word to either of my vampire companions, Louis or Lestat.

death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.

As I looked at the child on the bed, I forgot the language of guilt and recrimination.

Come here so I can see you. Ah, but you are handsome. Come into the light.

He looked rather radiant in his rapture with her, and she was beaming back.

Sometimes we are blinded by the translation we want to be true, and not the one that is correct.

So Aaron had become one of them, you might say." "Yes," she answered. "In all respects.

God knows that I have some accursed capacity to draw their attention and to endow them with some crucial vitality.