1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

He looked as though he contained heavy secrets which he must tell and yet he feared to do it.

He let his tread announce him as he went up the stairs. It seemed very much the proper thing to do in this house, to let Marius know that, he was coming, and not to be accused of boldness and stealth.

What had shaped his vision of her? It had been the thoughts of the blood drinkers who had gathered around her council table.

In Rome I lived in a palace and looked out on the seven hills each night. It was a dream of soft breezes and fruit trees. I sat in a window high above the sea and watched it strike the rocks. I went down to the sea and the sea was warm.

Marius had become sober and was looking into the flames again as though lost in his own sadness. In the light of the fire, his hair was almost entirely white.

Talk to me, Marius,” said Thorne. “My questions can wait. I want the sound of your voice. I want your words.” He hesitated. “I know you have much to tell.

It’s a lie that I hold him high in my affections. My life is full of such lies.

I saw him in human guise, dancing for humans, as if he were one of them. I smiled in my sleep, as I saw the modern world enfold him, unbelieving, amused, and dancing to his own rhythms.

Even to the young who look me, it is a difficult realization that they might become as pale and hard as I am.