Anne Rice citations

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“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.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?… Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

“A 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.”

“How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”

“As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”

“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.”

“Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”

“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.”

“I was good and bad, but never wicked.”

“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt”

“How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.”

“Every moment must be first known and then savored.”

“Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!”

“Drink from me and live forever.
Lestat de Lioncourt”

“I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”

“So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.”

“We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”

“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

“I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!”

“I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”