Howard Allen Frances O’Brien, better known as Anne Rice, is an author from the United States, who has won worldwide acclaim as one of the most famous authors of gothic fiction. In addition to that, she has also been a well-known name in the world of erotic and Christian literature. Rice has written plenty of books in a career that has spanned several decades and is a hugely popular author, whose ‘The Vampire Chronicles’ series remains a global favourite. The book ‘Interview With The Vampire’ was the first book of that series and several sequels continued over the next decades, as the series became a runaway success all across the world. On the other hand, she has also been an active writer in the genre of Christian literature and wrote novels on certain episodes from the life of Jesus Christ. ‘Christ The Lord: The Road to China’ and ‘Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt’ are notable examples. Her books have sold around 100 million copies worldwide, making her one of the most popular authors in the world. Her books from ‘The Vampire Chronicles’ have also been made into two movies, and here are some of the famous quotes by Anne Rice.
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
Anne Rice
Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth
Anne Rice
The only power that exists is inside ourselves.
Anne Rice
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.
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.-Marius
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
Anne Rice
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.
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.
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!
As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
Anne Rice
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
There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.
Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.
When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us
You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.
Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
Anne Rice
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.
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.
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.
Anne Rice
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers
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.
