Queen Of The Damned Lestat Quotes & Sayings

Maybe we do go home, finally. — Anne Rice

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love. — Anne Rice

from 'Incident Light Poem'

And all surprisingly without outrage
without gunshot
without a call of timber with/out bleak rows
to fall:
Light follows the path of least time

A law becomes gospel and sharp eye-water
is a diminished story
The thrill of being an airplane
Of being possibly broken
An amnesiac love between white mud
and the disintegration of shells
winnowed away — Andrea Strudensky

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

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait. — Anne Rice

The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Leaderships And Parental Mistakes Can Make A Child More Matured Than Their Age. It Happened To Me And It Is Still Happening To So Many Children World Wide. Most Especially, In Africa Where I Come From. This Is Why You See So Many African's Do All Sorts Of Bad Deeds For Surfacing And Surviving To Keep Body And Soul Together. — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie. — Nicholson Baker

I clasped his face in both hands as I kissed him. "You don't know how I need you, how I love you, how I always have," I whispered in his ear. Maybe he would find me more charming on account of what's befallen me - the unexpected horror I've seen, the inevitable pain I've endured. It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit. — Anne Rice

We live forever; but they don't come back. — Anne Rice

Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. — Anne Rice

I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well. — Anne Rice

A real devil among devils. — Anne Rice

Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince. — Anne Rice

In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles. — Joost Meerloo

In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad. — Anne Rice

The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? — Anne Rice

I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it. — Anne Rice