1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

He gets lost, or thirsty beyond the point where he can hunt on his own. I have to search for him. He was that way as a man before he was ever made a blood drinker. The blood didn’t change him except for a little while. And now he’s enslaved to these tiny worlds he creates.

Why place a shroud over all the splendor she saw around her, her vampire eyes feasting surely as she herself had feasted on all that we saw?

You have made yourselves an interesting adversary to one who loves challenges, and it will require all of my considerable influence to protect you individually and collectively from the avid lust you have so foolishly aroused.

He had a dawning sense of how much delight awaited him.

His mind was full of the verbal instruments by which he could bring about his own despair.

I wanted him for my companion, mirror of my emotions, witness of my aesthetic progress, yes, all those things. I wanted him to be the quiet and gentle Louis that I knew. And if he did not choose to go one with us, if he did in fact take his own life by walking into the sunlight, then it would be all the harder for me to continue, even with my fear.

It was not a easy thing to love her so terribly and not taste of her soul through her blood.

What was it like to be bound in her chains and close to her?

From her long red locks she had taken one hair after another and spun it into thread, working with silent speed as he approached her.