ANNE RICE BOOK QUOTES

“Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.” – Interview with the Vampire

“Immortality is not living forever; immortality is everyone else dying.” – Interview with the Vampire

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” – The Witching Hour

“To read a book is to let a root sink down. Into the soil of your soul.” – The Witching Hour

“You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great.” – The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” – Prince Lestat

“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” – Taltos

“I am slave to no man or being. I serve only my own desires.” – The Queen of the Damned

“We murder to dissect.” – Memnoch the Devil

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Blackwood Farm

“The purpose of all great literature is to combat despair and the force of history.” – Blood Canticle

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come.” – The Tale of the Body Thief NEW THOUGHTS QUOTES

“Remember: ‘To love another person is to see the face of God.'” – Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt

“The world demands no memorial. It’s up to every person to keep the memory alive.” – Pandora

“The difference between darkness and shadow, it seems to me, is that darkness is simply the absence of light, while shadows are dark shapes cast by the objects that are there to block the light.” – Violin

“Reality’s what other people dream for you.” – Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra

“You can run from the truth. You can bury it deep within some labyrinth of your own design. But it will always find you. And when it does, you’ve got two choices: ignore it and allow it to destroy you, or embrace it and let it carry you to unimaginable heights.” – The Wolf Gift

“When you lose your childish innocence, you gain the wisdom of a fallen angel.” – Blood Communion

“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.” – The Mummy

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” – The Vampire Lestat

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – The Queen of the Damned

“To be immortal is to sacrifice everything that makes us human.” – The Vampire Armand