01UndatedThe music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.Anne Rice / quote ↗
02UndatedI've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.Anne Rice / quote ↗
03UndatedAnd this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness.Anne Rice / quote ↗
06UndatedIt was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into 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.Anne Rice / quote ↗
07UndatedOne will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!Anne Rice / quote ↗
08UndatedThree generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in theair, yes, lift my body, but I refused him. I turned my back on him. I told him, You go back to the hell from which you came. And I used my power to fight him.Anne Rice / quote ↗
09UndatedBecause if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong.Anne Rice / quote ↗
11UndatedI am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'It was my turn to laugh.Anne Rice / quote ↗
12UndatedNo, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.Anne Rice / quote ↗
13UndatedAh, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of charms is the power of the will; you might say that we were all geniuses of psychology in those dark days, that we could be slain by the power of another's designs. And the dreams, Marius, the dreams are but a part of the great design.Anne Rice / quote ↗
14UndatedTo die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?Anne Rice / quote ↗
15UndatedI don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you thinkAnne Rice / quote ↗
16UndatedResignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!Anne Rice / quote ↗
18UndatedHow pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.Anne Rice / quote ↗
19UndatedAnd he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.Anne Rice / quote ↗
20UndatedYou have a light in you that’s almost blinding. But in me there’s only darkness. Sometimes I think it’s like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don’t need the darkness.Anne Rice / quote ↗
22UndatedThere 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. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.Anne Rice / quote ↗
23UndatedSometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it? Or do they merely want a comfortable illumination in their little shacks?It doesn't matter.We can't stop ourselves from making beauty. We can't stop the world.Anne Rice / quote ↗
24UndatedBut Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?Anne Rice / quote ↗
