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Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3) QUOTES

Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3) QUOTES

1 " I wish you hadn't told her. If you must know, I could have done without your telling her I commited statutory rape on the living room couch with her cousin." - Michael Curry "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

2 " This is a world where human races battle endlessly, where people of one faith still slaughter people of another. Religious wars rage from Sri Lanka to Bosnia, from Jerusalem to American cities and towns where Christians still, in the name of Jesus Christ, bring death in his name to their enemies, to their own, even to little children. Tribe, race, clan, family. Deep within us all are the seeds of hate for what is different. We do not have to be taught these things. We have to be taught not to give in to them! They are in our blood, but on our minds is the charity and the love to overcome them. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

3 " His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

4 " fragrance was the sharpest trigger of memory, a transport into forgotten worlds. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

5 " And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn’t do, or had to do, or failed to do "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

6 " Deep within us all are the seeds of hate for what is different. We do not have to be taught these things. We have to be taught not to give in to them! They are in our blood; but in our minds is the charity and the love to overcome them. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

7 " Divesting oneself so totally of the customary feelings of alienation and distrust that the subsequent acceptance was intellectually orgasmic. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

8 " I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon that knowledge, whether it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to give it to them. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

9 " Poetry is truth... It is the highest truth, and eloquence is its attribute. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

10 " : And I suppose I do believe, in the final analysis, that a peace of mind can be obtained in the face of the worst horrors and the worst losses. It can be obtained by faith in change and in will and in accident; and by faith in ourselves, that we will do the right thing, more often than not, in the face of adversity. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

11 " An icy gust of air rose from the open doors. Blackness. I cannot be locked in blackness. I cannot!
And finally he screamed. He couldn't hold it back any longer. He screamed, the terrible cry begun before he was pushed forward, before he felt himself topple from the threshold, before he realized he was plunging down and down into the blackness, into the nothingness... "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

12 " And I suppose I do believe, in the final analysis, that a peace of mind can be obtained in the face of the worst horrors and the worst losses. It can be obtained by faith in change and in will and in accident; and by faith in ourselves, that we will do the right thing, more often than not, in the face of adversity. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

13 " Music like that could hurt you. It gave you back your disappointment, and your emptiness. It said, Life can be this. Remember this. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

14 " I have learned to live with a profound loneliness. I forget about it for years and years. Then it surfaces, the desire to be placed in context by somebody else. The desire to be known, understood, evaluated morally by a sophisticated mind. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

15 " What race can live with any other? What religion with any other? War is worldwide; and the wars are tribal, no matter what men say they are! They are tribal, and they are wars of extermination, whether it be the Arabs against the Kurds, or the Turks and the Europeans, or the Russian fighting the Oriental. It’s never going to stop. People dream that it will, but it can’t, as long as there are people. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

16 " Forget you need anyone to love you for what you are. That’s impossible. I’m afraid. I’m afraid of what you will do now. The pattern’s all too familiar. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

17 " And pain was pain, whether physical or mental. Not the wisest of men or women or Taltos would ever know which was worse—the pain of the heart or the pain of the flesh. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

18 " Alienation, a lack of trust either in happiness or in others. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

19 " His mind was horrifyingly empty and still; and he felt the loneliness and the stillness of the rooms completely. "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)

20 " Stars filled every quadrant of the heavens. The moon drew her veil and then lowered it again, and the soft breeze made the pines shiver ever so slightly, "

― Anne Rice , Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)