“I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming only to sack my heart of all its riches. What am I to do? We argued, yes, you and I, but it was with loving respect, was it not? I cannot endure without you. Please come to me, from wherever you are.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him? If my tears spilled now, he would see them. If I trembled now, he would know.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted him to share my loneliness. I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams & from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house to me if it did not possess a library?”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“And then the most evil idea came to me. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan in the world and that Satan had come crawling along the stone floor towards me and put the idea in my mind.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Don’t make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can hear the wool grow on the backs of sheep, and the grass grow far away in the lands where the snow melts.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“memory is desperate to leave us. Memory knows that we cannot endure its company. Memory would reduce us to fools.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“An awareness had come over him that he wasn’t going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“I dream of miracles but I cannot imagine them. I pray for mercy, yet I cannot envision how it would come about.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“must somehow move to my restoration. I could not sink back in agony for that would breed but more agony. I must go on.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“Surely time can take away such love. What a curse if it can’t.” “It can’t.” I said.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
Anne Rice
Born place: in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States
Born date October 4, 1941
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“All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough...the fact will prevail through the universe...but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what you shall so: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body...”
― Walt Whitman, quote from Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
“A bottle that reads, "Drink me." A tea party, with a dormouse, a March Hare, and of course, one Mad Hatter. A red queen, with as much a fondness for tarts as for saying, "Off with their heads!" When we think of Alice and her adventures in wonderland, we often think of these amazing (and amusing) elements. Although today, your vision of Alice in Wonderland probably includes Johnny Depp and a certain visual aesthetic by Tim Burton, it's difficult not to think of the Alice stories without thinking about the food that appears within the pages of the story.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories
“Ändå lockar livets mörka och förunderliga äventyr. Jag stannar nog kvar, om inte annat så av nyfikenhet, och eftersom det gläder mig att andas och känna mina friska lemmar.”
― quote from A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
“Love token? So far you've given me a farthing charm and a book of manners I don't need. No wonder you idiots need a tournament to get married." Tress”
― Megan Derr, quote from Tournament of Losers
“Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Reluctant Assassin
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