Quotes from Anne Rice

No bastaba eso para seducirla sin contemplaciones, para forzarla a aceptar la sangre vampírica y luego decir: 'No, tesoro, no te he arrebatado la vida, si no que te ofrezco una eternidad conmigo'?

The man mattered as the monks had mattered. It was the man who had wrung the strong emotions from him. The man had bright from him bold words.

I can't think of the fate of these pages, except that they are very much for her, as I mentioned to you before, and if I'm allowed to title them I think it will be Symphony for Sybelle.

Amadeo," I said, kissing him once again as the blood flowed over my lips and into his mouth, "what was your name in that lost land?" Again I filled my mouth with blood and I gave it to him. "Reach back for the past, child, and make it part of the future.

Y es que es el alma de la humanidad la que a través de los siglos se dirige hacia la perfección, la raza humana la que cada año que pasa aprende a amar mejor y a perdonar. Yo estoy anclada en el pasado por cadenas que no puedo romper.

How can you be ashamed of such things? You're a strange creature, very gentle, I think, and out of kilter with your own time.

I had sparked something in him. I could see it in his black eyes. He was drawn to me, drawn to my world, but he couldn't admit it.

A witch is a person who can attract and manipulate unseen forces," said Aaron.

El mal es un punto de vista. Dios asesina y nosotros también; indiscriminadamente. Él arrasa a ricos y pobres y nosotros hacemos lo mismo; porque ninguna criatura es igual a nosotros, ninguna tan parecida a Él como nosotros, ángeles oscuros no confiados a los límites hediondos del infierno sino por Su tierra y todos Sus reinos.

Sybelle is obsessed with one thing, and that is playing the piano. For the first time she laid her hands on the keys she has wanted nothing else.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

I meant I wanted only to touch you, to feel how soft you are, how eternally young.

I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted to share my loneliness. I wanted to share all that I could teach him and give!

I let the Mind Gift loose, casting for the one at the mirror, and caught the whisper of murder at once.

I am...unfinished.

It was very easy for me to discern, without revealing my own presence, that an entire world of vampires mourned for me with greater anguish and tears than I could ever have predicted.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on." "You mean strive to be perfect," he said.

Did you see her as she took Lestat for her lover? Did you see her as sought to frighten mortals with her petty displays of power?

We did not speak of it, you understand, but I knew that it was the figure of his father who reigned in Amadeo's heart. It was the figure of that powerful bearded man who had so vigorously fought for life rather death within the monastery who held supremacy over conflicts that Amadeo was ever to know.

The code and the message are not the same. And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?

Stay with me, beauteous stars, I begged, and let me never seek to fathom this fusion of light and sound, but only give myself to it utterly and unquestionably.

My love for Daniel had never been entirely honest, and always viciously possessive, and quite entangled with my own hatred of the world at large, and my confusion in the face of the baffling modern times which had begun to open up to me when I emerged in the late years of the Eighteenth Century from the catacombs beneath Paris.

He drew closer as if I were a light and he wanted to be in it.

I wanted this mortal companion precisely because I had put myself into the mortal world.