Anne Rice: Trending quotes (page 2)

“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”

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

“It 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.”

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”

“Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss.”

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”

“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.-Marius”

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

“Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”

“I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.”

“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”

“Just remember… life without me would be even more unbearable.”

“And 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.”

“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”

“We're frightened of what makes us different.”

“And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”