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The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3) QUOTES

The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3) QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

2 " 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 , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

3 " Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of charms is the power of the will; you might say that we were all geniuses of psychology in those dark days, that we could be slain by the power of another's designs. And the dreams, Marius, the dreams are but a part of the great design. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

4 " There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

5 " It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre 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, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

6 " Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

7 " Finally those you love are simply ... those you love. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

8 " To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

9 " 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 , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

10 " Maybe we do go home, finally. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

11 " Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

12 " I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

13 " 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 , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

14 " After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

15 " Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

16 " Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good! "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

17 " I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

18 " 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 , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

19 " There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

20 " I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. "

― Anne Rice , The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)