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18 Mesmerizing Quotes From Anne Rice Books

20 Aug 2019

1. “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

― Interview with the Vampire

2.“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty’s dead.”

― The Vampire Lestat

3. “Come on, say it again. I’m a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

― The Queen of the Damned

4. “Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth”

― The Queen of the Damned

5. “If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”

― The Vampire Armand

6. “There 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.”

― Servant of the Bones

 

7. “It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.”

― The Queen of the Damned

8. “The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”

― Interview with the Vampire

9. “Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.”

― Memnoch the Devil

10. “In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”

― Interview with the Vampire

 

11. “Oh 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.”

― Pandora

12. “I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.”

― Blood And Gold

13. “The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.”

― Pandora

14. “Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”

― Blood And Gold

 

15. “In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art–the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard’s canvases–beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.”

― The Vampire Lestat

16. “A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.”

― Interview with the Vampire

17. “One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”

― The Tale of the Body Thief

18. “Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?”

― Interview with the Vampire

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