"...looking back on him, as it seemed I was always doing, I saw him more kindly than before. Lost like the rest of us. Not the jealous protector of any knowledge he was afraid to share. He knew nothing. There was nothing to know."-Anne Rice

"I didn't know I thought these things. I spoke them now as my thoughts. And they were my most profound feelings taking a shape they could never have taken had I not spoken them, had I not thought them out this way in coversation with another. I thought myself then possessed of a passive mind, in a sense. I mean that my mind could only pull itself together, formulate thought out of the muddle of longing and pain, when it was touched by another mind; fertilized it; deeply excited by that other mind and driven to form conclusions. I felt now the rarest, most acute alleviation of loneliness."-Anne Rice

"...if God does not exist, this life...every second of it...is all we have." -Anne Rice

"And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge."-Anne Rice

"You need it...therefore, I need it."-Anne Rice

"Yet I dared not touch her, dared not even say her name, lest my own pain break from me with the first syllable in a monstrous outpouring of hopelessly inarticulate cries."-Anne Rice

"I love you still, that's the torment of it...The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!"-Anne Rice

"What has died in me is the last vestige in me of what was human."-Anne Rice

"Their daughters live forever because these fathers die first."-Anne Rice

"He listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on everything said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible."-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

"How many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality?-Anne Rice

"I was sitting on the verge of dream."-Anne Rice

"He's searching for me, and I can't tell him that I am here."-Anne Rice

"But far from lamenting those changes, I was grateful for what seemed still the same."-Anne Rice

"My own tears meant nothing to me."-Anne Rice

"I understand you perfectly. I see in you the reflection of myself."-Anne Rice

"That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil. That weakness, that refusal to compromise a fractured and stupid mortality, that awful pride!"-Anne Rice

"...I felt that cry rising inside of me, that cry that pushed everything else out of its way, my teeth clenched to keep it in, because it was so loud and so full it would destroy me if I let it go."-Anne Rice

"The rain descended in shimmering needles into my eyes..."-Anne Rice

"...that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anythign but destroy us? Yet we can love each other."-Anne Rice

"All aesthetic decisions are moral."-Anne Rice

"I don't care...I'm not afraid...I would take my chance.."-Anne Rice

"The moment ended."-Anne Rice

"And I, watching him, hearing him, the only creature under God who heard him, knowing completely that it was true, said nothing."-Anne Rice

"Out of the mist which had followed the rain, a man was walking towards me. I can remember him as roaming on the landscape of a dream, because the night around me was so dark and unreal."-Anne Rice

"The only power that exists is inside ourselves."-Anne Rice

"Your evil is that you cannot be evil."-Anne Rice

"Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?"-Anne Rice