Quotes from Anne Rice

On and one went the sprightly melody, eloquent, celebratory, and utterly human, demanding to be felt as well as heard, demanding to be followed in every intricate twist and turn.

How can I describe him? His beauty did not depend on his facial expression. It was tempered already on his face. It was all wrought up with his fine bones, serene mouth, and his auburn curls.

Hmmm, very good," he said. "All my companions are of the best blood." "You're telling me," said my Master. I couldn't rip my eyes off him, off his changing face. It seemed now his cheeks did darken, or maybe it was only their curve as he smiled. His lips were rosy. "And I'm not finished, Amadeo," he whispered. "I've only begun.

You know in this day and age a rock musician can wear a frock coat if he wishes, and so I indulge myself.

Amadeo was destined for me.

they offer one hope—that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved." "Oh, yes, I think so, I really do," Aunt Queen

Sólo en la complejidad podemos encontrar las respuestas. A través de la complejidad el hombre lucha hacia la claridad; es un proceso lento y lleno de obstáculos, pero es el único camino. La simplicidad exige demasiados sacrificios. Siempre los ha exigido.

I saw myself in her gaze, a hooded being of burnt black sticks for a neck and wrists with gloves for hands and a floating leather mask for a face.

You are like an adult who, looking back on his childhood, realizes that he never appreciated it. You cannot, as a man, go back to the nursery and play with your toys, asking for the love and care

he has a sleepless mind in his heart and an insatiable personality.

And so there was this enigmatic creature in a good likeness. A creature asking for sympathy.

to be showered on you again simply because now you know their worth.

There is nothing like the long passage through the damp dark night, and then the sudden opening of the door of the tavern into an entire little universe of light and warmth and singing and laughing humans.

Great secrets I sometimes wrote in Greek rather than Latin, but even in Greek. I could not say all the I thought.

Oh, to think this burnt body had within it the blood of tears.

Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We

How can human hands make this enchantment, how can they pound out of these ivory keys this deluge, this thrashing beauty?

It was you, Master, who let me see what little I could of the marvelous bright world unfolding around me in ways I couldn't have imagined in the land or time in which I was born.

Well, think about it, Lestat, I'm young, I'm stupid. And I'm pretty. Look at the cameo. I'm pretty. Give me a chance.

I saw her shimmering face for an instant; she came towards me; I thought this is death again, this is death coming, the woods and the wolves coming, and no place to hide, and then my eyes closed.

Un monumento non ti dice che questo o quell'altro uomo è passato di lì, ma che ciò che ha provato in un punto del tempo e dello spazio continua. La luna che illuminava allora New Orleans sorge ancora. Finché saranno in piedi quei monumenti, essa sorgerà ancora. Questa sensazione, almeno qua... e là... resta identica.

Quinn, the snappy dresser. Quinn, worthy fo be a subject in the Vampire Chronicles. Quinn, dressed for begging to be allowed in.

are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.

I looked at the boy. I took up the candelabrum and I approached the bed and I looked down at him as he slept there, easy at last, breathing as though he was safe.