1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat’s black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.

Ah, yes, beautiful English bones.

I read her thoughts and I found the poetry inside of her, beneath the misfortune of warts and pockmarked skin, of hunched shoulders and deformed limbs. I loved her. Indeed she became, whole and entire, quite beautiful to me –. And she came to love me with her whole heart.

Is that the proof, Almighty God, that you are not there, that your saints could be such petty demons?

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that’s the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I’d ever wanted to do.

I saw these men and knew what they wanted, that this was vice, and despicable, and the price of it was Hell.

In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if’s of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him.

But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!