Quotes About Anne Rice

Maharet's skin, which had been so pale and almost luminous in life, so like the inner lining of a seashell.

My hands were…my strange white, slender, glittering hands.

In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.

I wasn't part of the world that cringed at such things. And with a smile, I realized that I was of that dark ilk that makes others cringe. Slowly and with great pleasure, I laughed.

You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!

And I had the most disconcerting sensation: that in my memory she would look up from that game of solitaire and the sockets of her eyes would be empty.

An actor said at one point that evil was a necessity. It was food for genius.

Delicious it was, the hatred between us, or so I thought. Such unfamiliar excitement, to have him there to ridicule and despise.

she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

Finally I closed my eyes and opened them again, and I smiled very gently at the creature.

the moral world seemed some desperate dream of rationality that in this lush and fetid jungle had not the slightest chance.

And there is another kind of strength in you. A daring, and a hunger, and aloneness. And that hunger and aloneness I know, and I kiss with the lips I do not have; I hold with the arms I do not have; I press to the heart in me that isn't there to beat with warmth.

My father who art in hell, Lestat be your name.

I'd like to meet the devil some night,' he said once with a malignant smile. 'I'd chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.' And

Loving our neighbors and our enemies is the core of the Sermon on the Mount, the core of Christianity… Love trumps judgment. We have to regain our credibility as people who know how to love...

Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he wasn't opposed to anything which smacked of style and excess.

she seemed to me an intriguing soul

The Vampire Lestat here.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." "So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions.

The power of Satan will blast you into hell,' the boy bellowed, gathering his remaining strength. 'You keep saying that!' I said. 'And it keeps not happening, as we can all see!

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

Doll, doll,' I called her. That's what she was. A magic doll. Laughter and infinite intellect and then the round-cheeked face, the bud mouth.

It's only mercy I ask, that I go now to find hell, if there is a hell, or sweet oblivion which surely I do not deserve. If there is a Prince of Darkness, then I shall set eyes upon him at last. I shall spit in his face.