Quotes About Anne Rice

It's no devil,' I said. 'And why do you say that?' she asked again, as if we hadn't discussed this before. 'Because,' I said, 'the Devil has more important things to do if he exists at all, and on the point of his existence at all I am not certain.' 'Where did you get an idea there was no Devil?' 'Rousseau,' I said. 'His philosophy argues that the worst evil is in man.

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

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

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

Now I remarked a little while ago that I wanted the Talamasca to envelop her in fantasy, to give her everything she should desire.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But

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

It was the first time I'd heard her voice, and I saw the deliberate brave calm of her blanched face, the wind making her eyes tear, though she herself remained staunch.

It was the man of memory and the man of visions that I knew as soon as I studied him.

It's how I exist and always have existed since I was taken out of mortal life by malicious and disciplined hands.

Oh, the thunder of ghosts and their aftermath. Let it distract me from Stirling Oliver in my lethal arms and the bloody bride lying on the bed.

I know nothing of those heroes of macabre facts masquerading as fiction.

All my gloomy years were gone as if a million candles had been lighted in this chapel.

In rambling drunken confession, the father gave forth his guilt as though it belonged to anyone who roused.

thought of themselves as Irish, often making remarks to that effect; and that they emerged in the consciousness of many who knew them—servants and peers alike—as almost stereotypically Irish in their madness and eccentricity and penchant for the morbid. Several critics of the family have called them "raving Irish loonies.

Listen, keep your eyes wide,' Lestat whispered to me, his lips moving against my neck. I remember that the movement of his lips raised the hair all over my body, sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion.…

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

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.

My vision was dim, and I knew I was smiling-not a vicious smile, you understand, but something secretive and beyond anything the child had ever beheld.

t seemed that Pandora had been with me, that she had been in the very chapel. And the beauty of Pandora seemed bound up with the beauty and presence of Akasha in some intimate way which I could not understand.

What had shaped his vision of her? It had been the thoughts of the blood drinkers who had gathered around her council table.

Vampires loath witches, whether they're rich or poor. Anyone who reads the story of Merrick Mayfair can see why.

Sometimes I think the theologians have got it backwards. The big problem is not How to explain the existence of evil in this world. It's How to explain the existence of good.

Having long identified my own soul with the salvation of the Empire, I felt no consolation in this city. I felt suspicion and profound distaste.