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The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1) QUOTES

The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1) QUOTES

21 " You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

22 " I would have done just about anything for him. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

23 " Maybe that was all there ever will be just that one weekend and forever this unfinished feeling... "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

24 " I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

25 " What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they’ll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

26 " I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

27 " Don’t be a pawn in somebody’s game,” she said. “Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

28 " And it isn’t only that I don’t believe it. I can’t. “I can’t believe it because my reason tells me that such a system, in which anyone dictates our every move—be it a god, or a devil, or our subconscious mind, or our tyrannical genesis simply impossible. “Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

29 " I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing, I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give to my life. The saving of witches, the study of the supernatural, these are my lasting pleasures; they make me forget that I do not know why we are born, or why we die, or why the world is here. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

30 " That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can’t bear to be this happy without the other person with you. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

31 " Come on, show me all you can do. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

32 " All over the world there are human beings with exceptional powers,” Aaron was saying, “but you are one of the rarest because you have found a way to use your power for good. You don’t gaze into a crystal ball for dollar bills, Rowan. You heal. Can you bring him into that with you? Or will he take you away from it forever? Will he draw your power off into the creation of some mutant monster that the world does not want and cannot abide? Destroy him, Rowan. For your own sake. Not for mine. Destroy him for what you know is right. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

33 " What have you seen with your eyes?" asked the old woman. "What have you seen that you knew should not be there? "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

34 " She was innately suspicious of language because she could “hear” with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it, and also she just didn’t know how to talk very well. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

35 " she appeared in a dashing fur coat and very high heels, with a bottle of bootleg whiskey in a brown paper bag from which she drank all during the meeting, erupting into wild laughter "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

36 " In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if’s of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

37 " And so a ghost of him had been created by her hatred and her rage. It was fading, yet it still stalked her, even here in the safe hallways of her own domain. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

38 " He thought of the Englishman at the bar in the lobby again. That’s what had brought it all back — the Englishman remarking to the bartender that he’d just come from New Orleans, and that certainly was a haunted city. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

39 " Come now, Richard," he said, "don't be foolish. Those were what are called trick babies. They were born in a house of prostitution; and they'll live out their lives that way...but I'll tell you what strikes me, Richard, about the whole matter. It's the way that life asserts itself, no matter what the circumstances. Of course it must be a miserable existence. How could it not be? Yet those little girls manage to live; to breathe, to enjoy themselves. They laugh and they are full of curiosity and tenderness. They adjust, I believe that's the word. The adjust and they reach for the starts in their own way. I tell you it's wondrous to me. They make me think of the wild flowers that grow in the cracks of pavements, just pushing up into the sun, no matter how many feet crush them down. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

40 " Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. "

― Anne Rice , The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)