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Anne Rice Quotes

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The haunting and lyrical voice of Anne Rice has captivated readers with its blend of gothic beauty, sensuality, and existential depth. Her stories explore the shadows of immortality, faith, desire, and the complexity of the human soul. The following quotes reflect her rich prose and the dark, mesmerizing imagination that made her a defining figure in modern gothic fiction.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
From Blackwood Farm
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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
From The Vampire Lestat
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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.
From The Vampire Lestat
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
From The Vampire Lestat
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
From Memnoch the Devil
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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
From The Vampire Lestat
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And it seemed suddenly that suffering was an idea I’d known in another existence and would never know again.
From The Vampire Lestat
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I was good and bad, but never wicked.
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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.
From Memnoch the Devil
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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
From The Queen of the Damned
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
From Interview with the Vampire
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And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
From Blackwood Farm
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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
From The Vampire Lestat
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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.
From The Vampire Lestat
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
From The Vampire Lestat
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
From Memnoch the Devil
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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
From The Vampire Lestat
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And it seemed suddenly that suffering was an idea I’d known in another existence and would never know again.
From The Vampire Lestat
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I was good and bad, but never wicked.
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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.
From Memnoch the Devil
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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
From The Queen of the Damned
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
From Interview with the Vampire
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And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
From Blackwood Farm
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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
From The Vampire Lestat
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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.
From The Vampire Lestat
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
From The Vampire Lestat
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
From Memnoch the Devil
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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
From The Vampire Lestat
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And it seemed suddenly that suffering was an idea I’d known in another existence and would never know again.
From The Vampire Lestat
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I was good and bad, but never wicked.
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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.
From Memnoch the Devil
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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
From The Queen of the Damned
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
From Interview with the Vampire
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