Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles Quotes

#1. Let me pay the price for you instead.

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#2. We live forever; but they don't come back.

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#3. It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

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#4. Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

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#5. I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.
'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.

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#6. 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, towards a sun which will never rise.

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#7. I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

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#8. But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come back in a great burst of glory. Out of mortal flesh I would pass into eternity. I would be one of you. - Daniel

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#9. And so we remain immortal; we remain frightened; we remain anchored to what we can control. It all starts again; the wheel turns; we are the vampires; because there are no others; the new coven is formed.

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#10. What would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair

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#11. We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.

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#12. Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

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#13. Pamper the mad man.

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#14. The Coven of the Articulate - A modern slang term popular among the Undead for the vampires whose stories appear in the Vampire Chronicles - particularly Louis, Lestat, Pandora, Marius, and Armand.

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#15. I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.

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#16. Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

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#17. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

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#18. The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.

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#19. I saw it, and I knew that he spoke the truth. I would always see it. I would see the spark of the Creator in every human life I ever encountered, and in every human life I took.

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#20. It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

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#21. I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.
"Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love.

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#22. Maybe we do go home, finally.

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#23. I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

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#24. I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

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#25. To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

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#26. But death we are, and death we've always been.

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#27. Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

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#28. Here's my love, not in little droplets, but from the very river of my being. It reaches all the way down to the roots of my being, tangling my heart in its burning mesh. For you. Drink deep.

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#29. He can see us, said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently.

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#30. We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.

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#31. Drink." she whispered, drawing nearer. "Drink." she held the soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards me. "No. I know what to do; haven't I done it in the past?" I said to her.

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#32. Malady of mortality

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