It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you? Anne Rice More Quotes by Anne Rice More Quotes From Anne Rice I would have done just about anything for him. Anne Rice done We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing! Anne Rice knowing mind giving One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Anne Rice tiny flames world It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated. Anne Rice ends secret roots Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence. Anne Rice gains suffering love-is Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil. Anne Rice new-age age evil This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves. Anne Rice empowering differences people A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature. Anne Rice eye adventure baby You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one. Anne Rice perfect-one perfect dream Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all. Anne Rice magic passion way Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes. Anne Rice long-ago passion eye 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 lonely broken heart Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories Anne Rice fashion soul water I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song. Anne Rice favorite-song listening song It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein. Anne Rice spiritual heart men Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life. Anne Rice irresistible mystery said Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours. Anne Rice darkness sea men Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die. Anne Rice tragedy life-is way Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it. Anne Rice dream writing sometimes You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can Anne Rice eras past thinking