{"quotes":[{"text":"Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["acting","actors","actresses","anne-rice","create","creative","lestat-de-lioncourt","magic","stage","the-vampire-chronicles","the-vampire-lestat","theater"],"id":1527,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"You let me handle Marius,' I said. 'Now, you didn't come without you dagger.'No, I did not,' he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, 'And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!'Permission denied.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","humor","marius","pandora","vampires"],"id":15957,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"As they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","dead","love"],"id":18709,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anger","anne-rice","armand","hate","lestat","lestat-de-lioncourt","loneliness","power","vampires"],"id":60460,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","belief","decision","inspirational","pandora","resignation","will"],"id":68424,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?Lestat: Of courseDavid: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...A most impressive piece of young male flesh.Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?David: A woman you loved.Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","lestat-de-lioncourt","louis-pointe-du-lac","tales-of-the-body-thief","vampire-chronicles","vampires"],"id":90504,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to bed,' he said softly.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","gay","kiss","lestat-de-lioncourt","romantic","the-vampire-chronicles","the-vampire-lestat"],"id":100300,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","damned","interview-with-the-vampire","vampire"],"id":149083,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its wintry glow to my faint smile at those who asked it of me? I remembered no one who had ever lived and breathed within my quietly moving form~ The Vampire Armand.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","the-vampire-armand","vampire"],"id":151300,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["ancient-times","anne-rice","design","khayman","marius","prophecies","prophecy","psychology","the-great-design","the-queen-of-the-damned"],"id":167293,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}