Anne Rice
"Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful."
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"Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful."
Anne Rice
"We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute."
Anne Rice
"And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars."
Anne Rice
"I 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
"God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves."
Anne Rice
"A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God."
Anne Rice
"Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice."
Anne Rice
"Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind."
Anne Rice
"Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation."
Anne Rice
"Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak."
Anne Rice
"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. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value."
Anne Rice
"Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!"
Anne Rice
"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success."
Anne Rice
"Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is."
Anne Rice
"I was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It never went away. I never again felt the same way about life and death."
Anne Rice
"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt"
Anne Rice
"Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever."
Anne Rice
"I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity."
Anne Rice
"I was good and bad, but never wicked."
Anne Rice
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