1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

It was all entirely understandable, but Aaron had a near magical effect upon people in such states, and he soon quieted her with his words, while Mary assisted when she could.

When you call on les mystéres you don’t always know what you’re going to get.

There were so many of us, bound together by love, in the Talamasca, and each one is a special case.

I am not a man who loves women of any age, but the sight of her foot, its arch so delicately stretched by the height of the feet, and of her leg, so taut from the pressure, was quite enought to send the most unwelcome and erotic thoughts through my brain.

I belonged to her now, quite completely. I was drenched with the scent of her perfume and her rum, of her skin and her hair. I wanted nothing but to be with her and to sleep beside her, and that the warmth of her would penetrate to my inevitable dreams.

How many times have you, the magician, reached out for the lonely soul? You have no right to call those between life and death.

You’ve learned to express yourselves too well for anything to remain veiled or mysterious.

He sat relaxed, one knee up, arms folded, face clear one moment in a flash of flame and pale the next. He was soiled all over, and seemed rather limp and in a strange misery of ease. His expression was neither bitter nor sarcastic, only thoughtful-fixed with an enduring expression just as the faces on the mosaics were fixed as they bore lifeless witness to the same events.

What had Jesse said? She is made of alabaster. And alabaster is a stone through which light can pass.