1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

He had grieved for me, I’ll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can’t exist without you, you make me miserable.

It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

We have the future now,” she whispered. “Does it matter that we’ve wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?

Yes, you are right, those of us who are known to everyone today are romantics. We are. We are poets. But we are individuals, with an immense faith in the individual and a love of the individual.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don’t come together in real groups.

Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn’t predetermined, it was merely predictable.

Truth is a risky proposition. It’s the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!′ he whispered under his breath. ‘You are a brat prince.