The Wolves of Midwinter Quotes

“We spend too much time cursing time—time waits for no man, time will tell, oh, the ravages of time, time flies! We don’t think about the gift of time. Time gives us the chance to make mistakes and correct them, to regenerate, to grow. Time gives us the chance to forgive, to restore, to do better than we have ever done in the past. Time gives us the chance to be sorry when we fail and the chance to try to discover in ourselves a new heart.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“There is no normal life. There is only life.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people’s deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth,”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“God triumphs on the ruins of our plans'. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which, we've never dreamed. Let's trust that that is what is happening here for each of us".”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“There is nothing under the sun…nor under the moon, no entity of intellect, that does not have to believe something about itself, something about its purpose, the reason for its suffering, its destiny.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Of course, it’s about faith—faith that this is God’s world and we’re God’s children. How could it not be about faith? I think if one truly loves God with all one’s heart, then one has to love everybody else. It’s not a choice. And you don’t love them because it scores you points with God. You love them because you are trying to see them and embrace them as God sees and embraces them. You are loving them because they are alive.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Actually, he had always found talk of hell highly offensive. He’d always sensed that those who did believe in hell had little or no empathy for those they assumed to be suffering there. Indeed, quite the opposite. Hellfire believers seem to delight in the idea that most of the human race would end up in just such a horrible place.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“We don’t think about that enough. We spend too much time cursing time—time waits for no man, time will tell, oh, the ravages of time, time flies! We don’t think about the gift of time. Time gives us the chance to make mistakes and correct them, to regenerate, to grow. Time gives us the chance to forgive, to restore, to do better than we have ever done in the past. Time gives us the chance to be sorry when we fail and the chance to try to discover in ourselves a new heart.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we’ve never dreamed.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion—of our own kind, of all humankind, of all spirits, of all things under the sun. It’s not a virtue with me. I don’t know any other way to move through the world.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Treasure the pain; treasure what you have with her, including the fear. Treasure what you may have, including the failure. Treasure it because if we don’t live this life, if we don’t live it to the fullest year after year and century after century, well, then, we die.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“An accidental chaos blindly serving up the unaccountable beauty he now saw”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“The blowing mist, filled with the light of the moon, was seeking to swallow the lamps of the heavens.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“as she pulled away the shirt and jacket like so much wrapping paper on a gift.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Why don’t people do what they really want to do, Reuben?” he asked. “Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn’t possible?”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Christmas celebrations in the early colonies to the condemnations today of the commercial nature of the feast.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“He was shaking his head, biting into his lower lip, fighting the sheer misery of the anticipation, when he realized that another figure was standing directly opposite, on the other side of the fire, quite visible above the leaping flames, gazing at him.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until your generation is in the earth. Then immortality will begin for you.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“he was pleased that she’d arranged a black vest for him and not a cummerbund”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“–Mas ela se encontrou comigo–disse Elthram.–Embora não saiba disso. Ela me conhece desde que está viva e a conheço, eu a conheci quando ela era uma criança percorrendo a Floresta Muir com o pai dela. Os Nobres da Floresta conhecem aqueles que pertencem à floresta. Eles nunca se esquecem daqueles que são gentis com a floresta.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“–Eu não sei se você tem como saber – disse ela.
–Reuben, nenhum fenômeno paranormal, psíquico ou sobrenatural jamais aconteceu comigo. Nada. Eu nunca tive nenhum pressentimento ou sonho premonitório. Jamais os espíritos do meu pai, da minha irmã, do meu marido ou os dos meus filhos vieram até mim, Reuben. Jamais ocorreu algum momento reconfortante no qual eu senti a presença deles. Jamais tive sequer uma ideia de que eles estavam vivos em algum lugar. Jamais houve uma brecha, uma brecha que fosse, das regras do mundo natural. Foi assim que eu vivi até você aparecer, no mundo natural.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“in the workaday world such relics were enshrined in museums, untouchable, and out of context,”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Hellfire believers seem to delight in the idea that most of the human race would end up in just such a horrible place.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Jim, remember the movie Tombstone? Remember what Doc Holliday says to Wyatt Earp when Doc is dying. You and I saw that movie together, remember? Doc says to Wyatt: ‘There’s no such thing as normal life, Wyatt. There’s just life.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“ghost radio”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“year and century after century, well, then, we die.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Felix?” “I don’t know, Dad. I can’t get his words out of my head! I’ve never been able to get the negative voices of my life out of my head. I’ve struggled all my life to find my own truth and I find myself smothered by other people’s words. It’s as though they’re always shouting at me, bullying me, shaking their fists, and half the time I can’t find what I think.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“La poesía debería tomarse en pequeñas dosis. Nadie necesita poesía. Nadie necesita obligarse a leerla.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter

“Geliebten Lakaien are once again here with us. Lisa, Heddy, Henrietta, Peter, and Jean Pierre,”
― Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter