Quotes from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“I don’t know whether I’m the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn’t I dominate it? I’m the one really telling it, after all.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“how do you go on breathing and moving and doing things when you know there is no explanation?”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“we do good when we make others forget their sorrow, make them forget for a little while”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“You make life when you play,” I said. “You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.’ And”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“But vampires feel cold as acutely as humans, and the blood of the kill is often the rich, sensual alleviation of that cold. But”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“Vengeance, blind and sterile and contemptible.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“Do you think that angels are detached?” asked”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“I found her more alluring than any woman I’d known in mortal life. Even”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“she seemed to me an intriguing soul clothed”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“I found her more alluring than any woman I’d known in mortal life.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“she seemed to me an intriguing soul”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that’s all. But life is more important than death.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“be careful what you wish for; your wish might come true.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“All you can do is make your life have meaning, make it good—”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. I”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“The great adventure of our lives. What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? And what is ‘the end of the world’ except a phrase, because who knows even what is the world itself?”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“ ‘She’s an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only one alive who has shared that time with you. You fear that, the isolation of it, the burden, the scope of eternal life.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“Your cigarette has become one long cylindrical ash.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“Some things one doesn’t want to remember.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“He looked away as if he were again disengaging himself from the present.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“It will never again be what it was. It’s a wonder that I didn’t foresee the cataclysm, but then I never really envision the finish of anything that I start.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

“What can the damned really say to the damned?”
― Anne Rice, quote from Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

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