I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.


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A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end p...
ANNE RICE
You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never d...
ANNE RICE
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in th...
ANNE RICE
I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
ANNE RICE
Let the flesh instruct the mind.
ANNE RICE
I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred ...
ANNE RICE
Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.
ANNE RICE
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I ha...
ANNE RICE
Every moment must be first known and then savored.
ANNE RICE
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds...
ANNE RICE
How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
ANNE RICE
Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your...
ANNE RICE
And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
ANNE RICE
And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die ...
ANNE RICE
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly...
ANNE RICE
The only power that exists is inside ourselves.
ANNE RICE
Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that consci...
ANNE RICE
The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
ANNE RICE
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all...
ANNE RICE
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted b...
ANNE RICE
What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, an...
ANNE RICE
The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below ...
ANNE RICE
Hauntings only repeat what occurred once upon a time.
ANNE RICE
With his finger curled under his lip, his elbow on the arm of the couch, he merely studied me as I r...
ANNE RICE
I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries ...
ANNE RICE
Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue R...
ANNE RICE
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her...
ANNE RICE
All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...
ANNE RICE
The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which s...
ANNE RICE
All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...
ANNE RICE