1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that’s all. But life is more important than death.

Wasn’t it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?

And there persisted in her a sense of Michael’s dangerous innocence, his naivete, which seemed to her to be connected to his attitudes about evil. He understood good better than he did evil.

Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.

You are someone worth loving.

Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it – when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth – he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.

I closed my eyes and heard the wind and the sound of water flowing softly, swiftly in the river. It was enough, for one moment. And I knew that it would not endure, that it would fly away from me like something torn out of my arms, and I would fly after it, more desperately lonely than any creature under God, to get it back.

I found her more alluring than any woman I’d known in mortal life.

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of “redeeming everything that ever happens to them.