1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

You have to suffer through this emptiness...and find what impels you to continue.

What would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair

The waiter had set down the hot drinks, and the steam did feel glorious. The piano played Satie ever so softly. Life was almost worth living, even for a son of a bitch of a monster like myself.

She was introspective when drunk, did a lot of singing and writing and dancing about during such periods, and demanded to be left alone.

I had given myself over to the religion, insofar as I could, be abandoned to anything.

The humming of the birds was becoming hypnotic, and again there came a low hiss of rain.

Her hair was pulled back to a bun on the back of her head. She was so beautiful she didn’t need any makeup, but she had put some dark-violet eye shadow on her eyelashes and a dark color, like violet, too, I think on her lips. I knew that dark violet meant trouble.

Now I remarked a little while ago that I wanted the Talamasca to envelop her in fantasy, to give her everything she should desire.