The Queen of the Damned Quotes

“irresistible. But why did men find war irresistible? What was the desire to clash violently against the will of another with weapons? What was the physical need to destroy? At such times, Daniel did his best to answer: for some men it was the need to affirm one’s own existence through the annihilation of another.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“That it’s chaos after you die”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, 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. Please forgive me if I sound bitter.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“But I tell you, it is the soul of humankind which moves towards perfection over the centuries, the human race which learns with each passing year how better to love and forgive. I am anchored to the past by chains I cannot break.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Your precious mankind!" she said. "It has learned nothing in six thousand years! You speak to me of ideals and goals! There were men in my father's court in Uruk who knew the hungry ought to be fed. Do you know what your modern world is? Televisions are tabernacles of the miraculous and helicopters are its angels of death!”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Discard your old illusions," she said. "Your inhibitions. They are no more of use than these old weapons. Together, we will make the myths of the world real."

"You wanted to be a saint when you knelt in that chapel," she said. "Now you shall be a god with me.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“She was always one to reach for the stars, and then draw back as if in horror.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Fascinating. Only a human being could think of a paradox like that. And he himself knew this, because he'd been human, of course.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“She paused, the moonlit snow blinding her for a moment, and she raised her eyes to the stars, twinkling through a thin fleece of passing cloud. She listened for other immortal voices.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!” he whispered under his breath. “You are a brat prince.” He gave a little private laugh.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“And by the way, when these other characters think or say of me that I am beautiful or irresistible, etc., don’t think I put these words in their heads. I didn’t! It’s what was told to me after, or what I drew out of their minds with infallible telepathic power; I wouldn’t lie about that or anything else. I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew. The bastard monster who made me what I am picked me on account of my good looks. That’s the long and short of it. And accidents like that occur all the time.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“It’s a wonder that I didn’t foresee the cataclysm, but then I never really envision the finish of anything that I start. It’s the risk that fascinates, the moment of infinite possibility. It lures me through eternity when all other charms fail.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Kill the god. Tear him limb from limb. Let the mortal worshippers do as they have always done - mourn for him who was meant to die. "Go, the Mass is ended”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“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

“And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don’t think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“hands shoved into the pockets of my jeans.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“I walked through the crowded galleria. Denim jacket, white T-shirt, face half covered by giant dark glasses;”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“You make me think of the old story about Alexander the Great. He wept when there were no more worlds to conquer. Will you”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Will you”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“You are the damnedest creature!” he whispered.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“off without a trace; we cover up the kill.” “You are an imp, Lestat, you know it? A brat.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“You will obey the rules, won’t you?” he asked suddenly. Mixture of menace and sarcasm. And maybe a little affection, too. “Of course!” Again I shrugged. “What are they, by the way? I’ve forgotten. Oh, we don’t make any new vampires; we do not wander”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“child, have invented such a vision? Maybe we do go home, finally.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Then I’d lie there and think of poor little Baby Jenks, as she had shown her to me, spiraling upwards; I’d see the varicolored lights enveloping Baby Jenks as she looked down on the earth for the last time. How could Baby Jenks, the poor biker”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“before Maharet left the Sonoma compound taking Mekare away.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“that moment, the two sylphs in the forest, only nights”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Open your ears, my darling; listen to their prayers; listen to the silence of those who’ve learned to pray for nothing. For nothing has always been their portion, whatever the name of their nation, their city, their tribe.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“fancy themselves ‘deprived’ of luxuries and peace and quiet which in fact were never common to any people anywhere at all.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“every social problem is observed in relation to ‘norms’ which in fact never existed, people”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“The impossibility of truth being served by generalities, and the impossibility of learning proceeding without them.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned