01c. 1981 ADIf goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in itAnne Rice / quote ↗
02c. 1981 ADGod kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.Anne Rice / quote ↗
03c. 1981 ADIs there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?Anne Rice / quote ↗
04c. 1981 ADBecause if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have.Anne Rice / quote ↗
05c. 1981 ADI would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.Anne Rice / quote ↗
07c. 1981 ADAmazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.Anne Rice / quote ↗
10c. 1981 AD...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.Anne Rice / quote ↗
12c. 1981 ADAnd do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and therefore neither one. I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen. I was born endowed with the finest traits of both sexes and I drift this way and that as I choose.Anne Rice / quote ↗
13c. 1981 ADWhat mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.Anne Rice / quote ↗
14c. 1981 ADTo be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.Anne Rice / quote ↗
15c. 1981 ADI drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.Anne Rice / quote ↗
16c. 1981 ADAnd you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.Anne Rice / quote ↗
17c. 1981 ADBut I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.Anne Rice / quote ↗
18c. 1981 ADI hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice.Anne Rice / quote ↗
19c. 1981 ADNew Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.Anne Rice / quote ↗
20c. 1981 ADI had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.Anne Rice / quote ↗
21c. 1981 ADAnd this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.Anne Rice / quote ↗
22c. 1981 ADBecause," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.Anne Rice / quote ↗
24c. 1981 ADHeaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.Anne Rice / quote ↗
