“ 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
“ 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
“ To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us. Anne Rice
“ ...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… Anne Rice
“ Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. Anne Rice
“ No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the cove… Anne Rice
“ One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, a… Anne Rice
“ And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of d… Anne Rice
“ 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
“ The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come. Anne Rice
“ And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, or future, that does not tear your reason from you,… Anne Rice
