1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.