Anne Rice

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt. ↗

— Anne Rice

#ego #ego

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt ↗

— Anne Rice

#death

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace. ↗

— Anne Rice

#nature

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands! ↗

— Anne Rice

#life

Every moment must be first known and then savored. ↗

— Anne Rice

#life

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. ↗

— Anne Rice

#humor #lestat #logic #luxury #meaning

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge. ↗

— Anne Rice

#endurance

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night. ↗

— Anne Rice

#wonder #beauty

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. ↗

— Anne Rice

#hell #selfishness

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you! ↗

— Anne Rice

#love