Top 100 Anne Rice Vampire Quotes
#1. I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
Anne Rice
#2. I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.
Anne Rice
#3. 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.
Anne Rice
#4. I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.
Anne Rice
#5. I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
Anne Rice
#6. 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
Anne Rice
#7. 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.
Anne Rice
#8. 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
Anne Rice
#9. You are the pure embodiment of madness.
Anne Rice
#10. 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.
Anne Rice
#11. I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.
Anne Rice
#12. Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
Anne Rice
#13. I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
Anne Rice
#14. Boy - before intense anxiety had crushed his chances for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and sent him into the awful mental decline in which he'd been made a vampire.
Anne Rice
#15. An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.
Anne Rice
#16. But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.
Anne Rice
#18. Perhaps this is the only real evil left.
Anne Rice
#19. I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.
Anne Rice
#20. For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?
Anne Rice
#21. Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
Anne Rice
#22. The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
Anne Rice
#23. That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched its whole magnificence for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sun light, and set out to become what I became.
Anne Rice
#24. 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.
Anne Rice
#25. I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.
Anne Rice
#26. Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
Anne Rice
#27. What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.
Anne Rice
#28. My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.
Anne Rice
#29. But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.
Anne Rice
#30. The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.
Anne Rice
#31. We live forever; but they don't come back.
Anne Rice
#32. All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved.
Anne Rice
#33. Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
Anne Rice
#34. All that Anne Rice crap is true, I thought on my way out the door; New Orleans really does have a vampire problem.
Besides me, of course.
J.R. Rain
#35. It's hard to imagine Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Interview with the Vampire.
Anne Rice
#36. I am the Vampire Lestat, and nothing ... not even this mortal body ... is going to defeat me.
Anne Rice
#37. It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.
Anne Rice
#38. Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!
Anne Rice
#39. You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.
Anne Rice
#40. I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights: The first light was simply enchantment ... But the other light was my wish for self-destruction.
Anne Rice
#41. There would be no twilight, I realized that. Ah, very sad indeed. But as a vampire I often beheld the twilight. So why should I complain?
Anne Rice
#42. Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good.
Anne Rice
#43. Let the flesh instruct the mind.
Anne Rice
#44. Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. - Claudia, 'Interview with a Vampire
Anne Rice
#45. Happy Halloween, vampire boys and girls.
Anne Rice
#46. That's the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms.
Anne Rice
#47. A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
Anne Rice
#48. Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.
Anne Rice
#49. Can you picture it, this splendid domesticity, dim lamps, the vampire father singing to the vampire daughter? Only the doll had a human face, only the doll.
Anne Rice
#50. I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.
'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.
Anne Rice
#51. Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
Anne Rice
#52. 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.
Anne Rice
#53. We truly are all one tribe," said the iron-haired ghost softly. "Human, vampire, spirit, ghost - we're all sentient creatures bound to this planet. Why can't we work together in the face of something like this?
Anne Rice
#54. To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.
Anne Rice
#55. But death we are, and death we've always been.
Anne Rice
#56. You really have need of very little, but each of us must decide how much he wants.
Anne Rice
#57. 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.
Anne Rice
#58. 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.
Anne Rice
#59. Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.
Anne Rice
#60. 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.
Anne Rice
#61. 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.
Anne Rice
#62. I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
Rachel Caine
#63. Davis was a beautiful black vampire, and Killer had loved him.
Anne Rice
#64. I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.
Anne Rice
#65. We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.
Anne Rice
#66. Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.
Janet Maslin
#67. 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.
Anne Rice
#68. I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.
Deborah Harkness
#70. A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.
Anne Rice
#71. Beside him walked a vampire nearly as old as Gregory, and indeed this one was none other than Seth, the son of the ancient Mother.
Anne Rice
#72. I stumble through a carnival of horrors
Anne Rice
#73. I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
Anne Rice
#74. I see." said the vampire thoughtfully.
Anne Rice
#75. 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
Anne Rice
#76. 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.
Anne Rice
#77. The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.
Anne Rice
#78. I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover.
Holly Black
#79. Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
Anne Rice
#80. Don't fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way.
Anne Rice
#81. I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach ...
Anne Rice
#82. Let me pay the price for you instead.
Anne Rice
#83. The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.
Anne Rice
#84. I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
Anne Rice
#85. I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice.
Anne Rice
#86. 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.
Anne Rice
#87. I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.
Anne Rice
#88. 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
#89. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#90. Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall
-The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
#91. I no nothing of god or the devil, and after 400 years ... This is the only real evil left ...
Anne Rice
#92. Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it - when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth - he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.
Anne Rice
#94. Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.
Anne Rice
#95. You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.
Anne Rice
#96. I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
Anne Rice
#97. I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
Anne Rice
#98. The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
Anne Rice
#99. I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and feel the tickle of their peculiar shapes. No." He shook his head. "That is, how would you say today ... bullshit?
Anne Rice
#100. There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to write a vampire book, or so huge that you would be crazy to write a vampire book. I'm not sure there's ever going to be a time. We went from Anne Rice to Buffy to 'Twilight.'
Holly Black
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