Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it. Anne Rice More Quotes by Anne Rice More Quotes From Anne Rice The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world. Anne Rice real-world real world Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise. Anne Rice pain sea dark No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. Anne Rice savages garden civilization And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer. Anne Rice suffering heart europe I was good and bad, but never wicked. Anne Rice wicked good-and-bad Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know. Anne Rice knows lying But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you. Anne Rice mother children thinking Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul? Anne Rice states soul knows A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God. Anne Rice devil evil perfect Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Anne Rice vampire growing-up mean Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt Anne Rice vision fire past I assume I don't need an introduction. Anne Rice assuming introduction needs But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable. Anne Rice vampire unbearable would-be And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me. Anne Rice sympathetic comment impression ….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 brave fear men For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories. Anne Rice kissing memories thinking Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down. Anne Rice destiny queens evil Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer. Anne Rice passion suffering heart Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest. Anne Rice vampire wings sweet We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. Anne Rice predator eye giving
