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I found her more alluring than any woman I'd known in mortal life. Even — Anne Rice

Come on, show me all you can do. — Anne Rice

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? — Anne Rice

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon. — Anne Rice

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us. — Anne Rice

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. — Anne Rice

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box. — Anne Rice

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature? — Anne Rice

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. — Anne Rice

Just remember ... life without me would be even more unbearable. — Anne Rice

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write. — Anne Rice

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is. — Anne Rice

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground. — Anne Rice

All that Anne Rice crap is true, I thought on my way out the door; New Orleans really does have a vampire problem.
Besides me, of course. — J.R. Rain

Still whining, Louis! — Anne Rice

Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands. — Anne Rice

An intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. — Anne Rice

Get thee behind me, tragedy. — Anne Rice

I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture. — Anne Rice

He can see us, said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently. — Anne Rice

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice

Buckled under the weight of a loneliness so terrible I would have chosen death then if only I'd had such a choice. — Anne Rice

And then he glanced at the ceiling and, making a fist with his right hand, he gasped, Damn you ... God! Damn you! — Anne Rice

Every spellbinder has a signature," I said. "Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can't make it happen to me after that." I — Anne Rice

In the story of the prince and the frog, there's always a frog. This story ... it has no frog. — Anne Rice

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul? — Anne Rice

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. — Anne Rice

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever. — Anne Rice

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it. — Anne Rice

The only power that exists is inside ourselves. — Anne Rice

It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory. — Anne Rice

I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights: The first light was simply enchantment ... But the other light was my wish for self-destruction. — Anne Rice

You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery. — Anne Rice

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? — Anne Rice

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice

Perhaps this is the only real evil left. — Anne Rice

Who could trust language? — Anne Rice

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job. — Anne Rice

You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope. — Anne Rice

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened. — Anne Rice

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night. — Anne Rice

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice. — Anne Rice

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book. — Lorraine Toussaint

end. Before I even meant to do — Anne Rice

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. — Anne Rice

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. — Anne Rice

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther. — Anne Rice

What I fear in writing is the safe decision. — Anne Rice

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. — Anne Rice

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet. — Anne Rice

she seemed to me an intriguing soul — Anne Rice

Those who desire power want to — Anne Rice

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

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you. — Anne Rice

Maybe that was all there ever will be just that one weekend and forever this unfinished feeling ... — Anne Rice

You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow. — Anne Rice

An accidental chaos blindly serving up the unaccountable beauty he now saw — Anne Rice

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. — Anne Rice

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it. — Anne Rice

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death. — Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself — Anne Rice

Everyone today has a story; the world's an archive. — Anne Rice

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 — Anne Rice

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. — Anne Rice

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear. — Anne Rice

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

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. — Anne Rice

You don't have to take upon yourself the burden of murder or madness to be free of this place. Surly there must be other ways. — Anne Rice

In the flesh," Maharet said. "In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the idea, beware the devil. — Anne Rice

You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that's why you're happy. — Anne Rice

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet... — Anne Rice

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. — Anne Rice

You reflect your age differently. You reflect its broken heart. — Anne Rice

Don't regret it when you don't come to see me. I think I'm timeless. You're here now and you've remembered me. That's what counts. — Anne Rice

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? — Anne Rice

Happy Halloween, vampire boys and girls. — Anne Rice

She said further that this Geneva blood drinker was tragically in love with Lestat. — Anne Rice

I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all. — Anne Rice

I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy. — Anne Rice

I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well. — Anne Rice

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess. — Anne Rice

When it's happening it is too beautiful, too overwhelming, and you can feel it's being lost with every breath you take. — Anne Rice

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it. — Anne Rice

He wanted to say this was not erotic. But it was erotic, insofar as anything and everything is. — Anne Rice

And I loved this moment for all it's pain ... We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing. — Anne Rice

In the beginning were the spirits. — Anne Rice

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. — Anne Rice

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. — Anne Rice

What have you seen with your eyes?" asked the old woman. "What have you seen that you knew should not be there? — Anne Rice

I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power. — Anne Rice

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. — Anne Rice

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth. — Anne Rice

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance. — Anne Rice

I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two. — Anne Rice

Only love could create such conflict, such longing, such fear. — Anne Rice

There are times when one simply cannot say no. — Anne Rice

Don't cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions — Anne Rice

An awareness had come over him that he wasn't going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. — Anne Rice

First and foremost, there is one God, and his name does not matter. Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Zeus, Aten, it does not matter at all. — Anne Rice