1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

I thought of how much I loved Louis, and had ever since I became Lestat’s fledgling. I thought of how deeply I depended upon him, and what I would do for him. It was the love of Louis which had at times crippled Lestat, and enslaved Armand. Louis need have no consciousness of his own beauty, of his own obvious and natural charm.

Revenge is a lure, a mighty molten lure, even if it is hopeless!

How steady yet pulsing was this orgy of fierce light!

You squirm on the end of a hook, you’re a doomed catch from the sea, and you do not even know that you are no longer in the life-sustaining water.

She was tall, and had kept her dark brown hair loose and long all her life, save for a leather barette such as she wore now, which held only her forelocks beneath her head to flow down her back. She wore gold hoops danging from her small earlobes, and her soft white summer clothes had a gypsy flare to them, perhaps because of the red scarf tied around the waist of her full cotton skirt.

This was more tantalizing than I’d ever expected, to be locked once more in conversation with her. And with pleasure I doted upon the changes in her: that her French accent was completely gone now and she sounded almost British, and that from her long years of study overseas. She’d spent some of those years in England with me.

I wonder if she had seen the future-that the Talamasca File on the Mayfair Witches would swallow Aaron’s life, as surely as the Vampire Lestat swallowed mine.

Jesse Reeves had been my student even more surely than Merrick ever became, and the vampires had swallowed Jesse whole and complete.

My mortal life had been shattered, my soul soaring and then fallen, my vampire life erasing all the small accomplishments and consolations of the man I’d once been.