01c. 1981 ADShe had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.Anne Rice / quote ↗
02c. 1981 ADSadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.Anne Rice / quote ↗
03c. 1981 ADMemory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.Anne Rice / quote ↗
04c. 1981 ADWithout memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.Anne Rice / quote ↗
05c. 1981 ADActors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.Anne Rice / quote ↗
07c. 1981 ADIt was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.Anne Rice / quote ↗
08c. 1981 ADBut to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, striving to make a difference when no difference could possibly be made. It was like dipping a stick into the ocean and trying to write something – all the little people of the world spinning out little patterns that lasted no more than a few years, and meant nothing at all.Anne Rice / quote ↗
09c. 1981 ADThere is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.Anne Rice / quote ↗
10c. 1981 ADA singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.Anne Rice / quote ↗
11c. 1981 ADIt's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.Anne Rice / quote ↗
13c. 1981 ADI hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach...Anne Rice / quote ↗
16c. 1981 ADDarkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.Anne Rice / quote ↗
17c. 1981 ADI tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.Anne Rice / quote ↗
18c. 1981 ADAll my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.And now, in this darkness, I fear nothing. If you were to leave me here, I would feel nothing. I would walk as I am walking now. As a man, you can't know what I mean by what I say.You can't know a woman's vulnerability. You can't know the sense of power that belongs to me now.Anne Rice / quote ↗
20c. 1981 ADEvil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.Anne Rice / quote ↗
21c. 1981 ADAnd what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.Anne Rice / quote ↗
23c. 1981 ADEvil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.Anne Rice / quote ↗
24c. 1981 ADEvil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil.Anne Rice / quote ↗
