“People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“That's the glory of it; thousands of years have passed and yet you can follow Him so close!”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“But in every family there are bad people, and weak people, and some people who can't or won't withstand the trials of life, and who fail spectacularly. Their guardian angels weep; demons beholding them dance for joy.
But only The Maker decides what ultimately happens to them.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny-and his was, of course, a lie.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming serenity. After all, we live in a world of perfect trust in The Maker, and we are keenly aware that humans often do not, and we feel an active sorrow for them.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“One can't be a killer every moment of one's life. Some humanity is going to show itself now and then, some hunger for normality, no matter what you do.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“...he didn't know where I lived, because I think he feared, in his heart of hearts, that I didn't trust him, that my work had slowly eroded the love for him which I felt.
But I did trust him...I did love him. I didn't love anyone in the world but him. I just didn't want anyone to know where I lived.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to happen, I think, if and when one gives oneself absolutely to God.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“So that’s how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don’t believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“I’d known for a long time why I loved history. It was because the historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They’d take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny—and this was, of course, a lie.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“It's a way to use you and who you are. It's a way to use every detail of who you are. It's an assignment to save life instead of taking it, to answer prayers instead of cutting them off. It's a chance to do something that matters terribly to others while doing only good for yourself. That's what it's like to do good for yourself. That's what it's like to do good, you know. It's like working for The Right Man except that you believe in it with your whole heart and your whole soul, so much so that it becomes your will and your purpose with love.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“Lord, set my heart afire with faith, because I am losing faith. Lord, touch my heart, and set it afire.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
“Although we cannot number the infinite, nevertheless it can be comprehended by Him whose knowledge has no bounds.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Angel Time
Anne Rice
Born place: in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States
Born date October 4, 1941
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“How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, quote from Make Lemonade
“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world in which there is not only the life rhythm but the death rhythm. The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm. There is not only no need to keep alive at any price, but, if life is undesirable, it is absolutely wrong. This keeping oneself alive, out of a blind urge to defeat death, is in itself a means of sowing death. Every one who has not fully accepted life, who is not incrementing life, is helping to fill the world with death. To make the simplest gesture with the hand can convey the utmost sense of life; a word spoken with the whole being can give life. Activity in itself means nothing: it is often a sign of death.”
― Henry Miller, quote from Tropic of Capricorn
“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.”
― Zoë Heller, quote from What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
“How do you know that?"
"I followed you."
"I saw no one."
"That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?”
― Alex Flinn, quote from Breathing Underwater
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