Anne Rice quotes - page 3

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! (Anne Rice)
I want to know, for example, why beauty exists, she said, why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough. View quote
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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? View quote
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Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt. View quote
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It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars. View quote
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Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music... View quote
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I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew. View quote
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I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. View quote
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But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable. View quote
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I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself. View quote
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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing. (Anne Rice)
You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up. View quote
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So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms. View quote
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Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl. View quote
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Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers. View quote
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You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself! View quote
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‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby. View quote
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How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes? View quote
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I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could. View quote
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I'm the Vampire Lestat. Remember me? The vampire who became a super rock star, the one who wrote the autobiography? The one with the blond hair and the blue eyes, and the insatiable desire for visibility and fame? You remember. View quote
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Oh my precocious one," she said. "You never fail to charm me. Bisexual is it, how Byronic and charming. Doesn't that double's one's chances for love? I'm so delighted. (Anne Rice)
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before. View quote
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Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on. View quote
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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. View quote
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We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us. View quote
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