1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun.

I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two.

And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don’t know whether I’m the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn’t I dominate it?

I adore my Queen and I am here with you. I love you both. I yield to that entirely as well as everything else and even the knowledge I may be punished. And when I am punished, I shall dread it, and suffer it and understand it and accept it. when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering.

Life is a gift. Immortality is a precious gift.

My life’s been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I’ve done everything in the name of defiance.

This is when you pray, she thought miserably and quietly. This is when you pray to nothing and no one to take away the terror of what you’ve done, to make it right, to make it that you never never came here.