“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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“At first it was simply that the spells would not come off. Or they would, but with the most unexpected results. He would try to move a small object, a salt cellar; it would overturn. He would try again and the salt would burst into flames. On the third try it might fly at his head, or mine. One day he attempted a simple messenger spell, and in the space of five minutes every spider, centipede, and earwig in the place came swarming in under the door. We began conducting his training outside after that.
“Attempting to levitate, he blew up an entire grove of trees in the park. A simple summoning, butterflies I think, and all the horses went crazy for an hour. Things soon reached such a state that whenever anything unusual happened within the Orëska grounds, we got the blame for it.
“Oh, but it was frustrating! In spite of all the blunders, all the destruction, I knew the power was there. I could feel it, even when he could not. For he did succeed now and then, but so erratically! Poor Seregil was devastated. I saw him brought to tears just trying to light a candle. Then there was the time he turned himself into a brick.”
― quote from Luck in the Shadows
“May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Origin
“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from On Chesil Beach
“Is there anything sexier than the noises a man makes during sex?”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Raw
“If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don’t hurt others, then you have common cause with the kids whose web-browsers and cell phones are being used to lock them up and follow them around.
If you believe that the answer to bad speech is more speech - not censorship - then you have a dog in the fight.
If you believe in a society of laws, a land where our rulers have to tell us the rules, and have to follow them too, then you’re part of the same struggle that kids fight when they argue for the right to live under the same Bill of Rights that adults have.”
― Cory Doctorow, quote from Little Brother
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