1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

What is it in me that will not acknowledge my admiration for her mind, her beauty, her exquisite understanding of all things?

With vampiric dexterity I slipped into shadowy gardens and listened at the open doorways of the dimly lighted villas as those inside talked softly over dinner or listened to the delicate music of a young boy accompanying himself with a lyre.

Goodnight my darling one. My dark angel Gabrielle.

He didn’t answer me, but I saw his face darken for a moment and then he fell into reverie, with his habitual expression of curiosity and quiet grace.

Old age had taught me to respect danger.

His dark-green eyes made me think of Merrick’s, and for one moment I felt such a desire for her, such a horror of what I’d done, that I couldn’t speak.

I’ve been too young for too long.

What tribe on earth has not had elders? How much of our art and our knowledge comes from those who’ve lived into old age? You sound like Lestat when you say such things, speaking of his Savage Garden. The world has never seemed a hopelessly savage place to me.

I cannot pretend to be the mortal that once refused Lestat. I cannot reach back and claim that being’s reimaginative heart.