Anne Rice Quotes

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood And Gold

“I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”
― Anne Rice

“I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”
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“You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.”
― Anne Rice

“For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.”
― Anne Rice

“Men and women are learning animals. If you do not see what they have learned, you're blind. They are creatures ever changing, ever improving, ever expanding their vision and the capacity of their hearts. You are not fair to them when you speak of this as the most bloody century; you are not seeing the light that shines ever more radiantly on account of the darkness; you are not. seeing the evolution of the human soul!… …True, what you say about war. Yes, and the cries of the dying, I too have heard them; we have all heard them, through all the decades; and even now, the world is shocked by daily reports of armed conflict. But it is the outcry against these horrors which is the light I speak of; it's the attitudes which were never possible in the past. It is the intolerance of thinking men and women in power who for the first time in the history of the human race truly want to put an end to injustice in all forms. -- Marius to Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles) ”
― Anne Rice

“It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires

“Pamper the mad man.”
― Anne Rice

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.”
― Anne Rice

“You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger."

"No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!"

"Permission denied.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, or future, that does not tear your reason from you, to think on it. So think about the pain. This pain after all has its limits. You can chart its passage through your body. It has a beginning, middle, end. Imagine if it had a color. The first cut of the lash is what, red? Red, spreading into a brilliant yellow. And this one again, red, red, no yellow, and then white, white, white, white. . .Why have you incarcerated yourself in this palazzo of torture chambers, why do you not leave this place? Because you are a monster and this is a school for monsters, and if you leave here, then you will be completely, completely alone! Alone with this!

Don't weep in front of these strangers. Swallow it down. Don't weep in front of these strangers! Cry to heaven, cry to heaven, cry to heaven.”
― Anne Rice, Cry to Heaven

“We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, "I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“En quelques jours, ils avaient noué une alliance malsaine avec un jeune et élégant vampire français du Garden District aux cheveux blonds improbables, et totalement dénué de scrupules.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Master, the paintings, the paintings in the storage rooms!" I cried.
"Forget the paintings. It's too late. Boys, run from here, get out now, save yourselves from the fire."
Knocking the attackers back, he shot up the stairwell and called down to me from the uppermost railing. "Come, Amadeo, fight them off, believe in your strength, child, fight.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its wintry glow to my faint smile at those who asked it of me? I remembered no one who had ever lived and breathed within my quietly moving form~ The Vampire Armand”
― Anne Rice

“I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.
"Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love.”
― Anne Rice

“He can see us," said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently.”
― Anne Rice

“El vasto cielo estaba cubierto de nubes y luego nos abrimos paso hasta las mismísimas estrellas.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“Jamás había estado tan cerca de él y, en la penumbra, pude ver el magnífico esplendor de sus ojos.”
― Anne Rice, Entrevista con el vampiro

“Em sua busca por uma ressignificação do mal fora do Cristianismo, Lestat não tenta, entretanto, posicionar-se como sendo necessariamente o oposto dele. Afinal, como afirma Rice, ainda que Lestat “seja um símbolo de formas de liberdade e domínio, eu nunca perco de vista o mal que tem em si”. Esse mal em si, todavia, não o limita ou tampouco o define; ele é reconhecido, aceito e passa a integrar um mosaico complexo que compõe a identidade em transfiguração do “vampiro deste tempo”.”
― Thiago Sardenberg

“Disposto a morrer para ter sua história contada e sua natureza reconhecida, Lestat, como “vampiro deste tempo” que é, dialoga com a atitude dos novos tempos para os quais acordou, em que o Outro é menos excluído por sua diferença que, na verdade, celebrado por ela.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, O VAMPIRO À SOMBRA DO MAL

“De um lado, temos a figura do vampiro pré-riceano como a própria personificação de um Outro que é estrangeiro, alheio à nós, aos nossos costumes e valores e que, consequentemente, era construído como perigoso, antagônico, maléfico. Do outro, temos Lestat, que já se viu nesses mesmos lugares e obstinou-se a reconstruir-se para além deles.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, O Vampiro à Sombra do Mal: A Fluidez do Lugar da Figura Mítica na Literatura

“Enquanto Stoker via seus vampiros como manifestações do proibido e do profano, Rice explorou-os como formas de lidar com sua realidade, com conflitos que lhes eram particulares; ela, que sempre se viu refletida na figura do outsider, sentiu-se confortável ao lidar com figuras que tentavam encontrar um significado para si fora da normatividade. Louis e Lestat, tão diferentes, carregam em si um pouco do fantasma da culpa católica e do desejo por ruptura e liberdade – sentimentos conflituosos, mas presentes simultaneamente em Rice.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, O Vampiro à Sombra do Mal: A Fluidez do Lugar da Figura Mítica na Literatura