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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) QUOTES

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) QUOTES

1 " It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

2 " The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

3 " People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

4 " As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

5 " A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

6 " Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

7 " It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

8 " How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

9 " And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

10 " It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

11 " The only power that exists is inside ourselves. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

12 " Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

13 " And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

14 " Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures
of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the
passage of time and the value off every minute of human life. And
what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or
eventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

15 " ...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 , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

16 " I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

17 " Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

18 " 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 , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

19 " In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

20 " And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt. "

― Anne Rice , Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)