1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

Child,” he whispered. “Would I suffer such horrors if not for God?

He considered us not worthy of his attentions, and look, how he lavished all his strength of a boy. But I must say you are a most beautiful boy.

Ah, but you have a fiery tongue for one with such a sweet face,” he said with cool wonder. “So pliant you seem with your soft brown eyes and dark autumnal red hair, but you are clever.

In you, he saw God’s grace, because your soul is pure. You are young and tender and open like the moonflower to intake the light of the night. You hate us now, but you will come to see.

It is the very nature of this world that all things are devoured and time is a mouth as bloody as any other.

I entrusted myself to his arms, I opened my lips to his, I bowed my head to press my face to his chest, and as I listened to his beating heart, I breathed deep, as if the very air had been denied to me until that moment.

We are a cruse of the shadows; we are a secret. We are eternal.

I was too pale of soul, too numbed, to used to seeing all things as figments in a series of unconnected dreams.

Time eventually destroyed our love for one another. Time withered our gentle intimacy. Time devoured whatever conversations or pleasures we once agreeably shared.