02UndatedOh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.Anne Rice / quote ↗
03UndatedIt was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.Anne Rice / quote ↗
06UndatedDo 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedTruth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.Anne Rice / quote ↗
08UndatedPeople who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.Anne Rice / quote ↗
09UndatedHow could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.Anne Rice / quote ↗
10UndatedI saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.Anne Rice / quote ↗
11UndatedNão importava que Deus no céu fosse católico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa mais profunda, mais antiga e mais forte do que qualquer imagem dessas: um conceito do bem baseado na afirmação da vida, na repulsa à destruição, à perversidade, ao uso e abuso do homem pelo homem. Era a afirmação do humano e do natural.Anne Rice / quote ↗
13UndatedWould that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.Anne Rice / quote ↗
14UndatedAnd books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.Anne Rice / quote ↗
15UndatedOh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.Anne Rice / quote ↗
17UndatedThe spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.Anne Rice / quote ↗
18UndatedI was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It never went away. I never again felt the same way about life and death.Anne Rice / quote ↗
20UndatedFirst-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.Anne Rice / quote ↗
21UndatedThe atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.Anne Rice / quote ↗
22UndatedMaybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.Anne Rice / quote ↗
23UndatedAs the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.Anne Rice / quote ↗
24UndatedWe all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.Anne Rice / quote ↗
