Lasher Quotes

“We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“One time Gifford had asked Mona: “What’s the difference between men and women?” Mona had said: “Men don’t know what can happen. They’re happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“His hands would soon be trembling and he would have indigestion, but he didn’t care. When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“I heard the first raindrops strike the porch roof beneath her. I felt them on my face: I saw the trees begin to move in their fury. And I heard the wind, wailing as if he were wailing, lashing the trees and crying in his grief as he had on the death of my mother, and on the death of her mother. Yes, it was a storm for the death of the witch, and I was the witch. And it was my death and my storm.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“The stars shone as brightly as if they were tumbling on the Final Day.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“It's no devil,' I said.
'And why do you say that?' she asked again, as if we hadn't discussed this before.
'Because,' I said, 'the Devil has more important things to do if he exists at all, and on the point of his existence at all I am not certain.'
'Where did you get an idea there was no Devil?'
'Rousseau,' I said. 'His philosophy argues that the worst evil is in man.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“It is a terrible thing to realize that you depend so much upon another; that your entire sense of well-being is connected to that one—that you need him, love him, that he is the chief witness of your life.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Stella, hush up. Be a witch, not a bitch, for the love of heaven.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“¿Acaso creías que podías bailar con el diablo y no pagar un precio por ello?”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“What a smile. What a dazzle. How I wished for an instant that I had loved him.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Is that the proof, Almighty God, that you are not there, that your saints could be such petty demons?”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Mine was the naïveté of the living; now it is the confusion and longing of the dead. Pray when I am finished with this tale, I will go on to something greater. Punishment even would have its shape, its purpose, some conviction of meaning. I cannot imagine eternal flames. But I can imagine eternal meaning.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Men don’t know what can happen. They’re happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time.” Gifford had laughed at that.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Yuri loved the coffee. A pot of it. His hands would soon be trembling and he would have indigestion, but he didn’t care. When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“I like to read things I’ve read before. It’s like listening over and over to your favorite song.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“She would turn to the Catholic Church to destroy the thing, she said, 'to the power of Christ, and His Holy Mother, and the saints.'
We fought a terrible battle of words. I cried out: 'Don't you see that that is nothing but another form of witchcraft?”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Julien, how you misunderstand me and everything that I have done. All these years, I’ve striven to bring us together, to make us strong in number and influence. Do you think I would hurt a child that has your blood? Cortland’s daughter? Oh, Julien, you break my heart. Trust in me, that I know what I do, that I have done everything right for our family. Trust in me, please, Julien, don’t die in agitation and fear. Don’t let this happen to you. Don’t let the last hours be ugly with fear. I’ll sit with you night and day if I have to. Die calm. We are the Mayfair family…a million leagues from where we were at Riverbend so long ago. Trust that we shall prevail.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“I want to come back. I want to remain earthbound, to stay, to be part of this house. But God, I swear it, in my soul of souls, it is not greed to live again, it is that the tale is unfinished, the demon continues, and I die! I would help, I would be an angel of the Lord somehow. Oh, God, I do not believe in you. I do not believe in anything but Lasher and myself.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“I would have given you my secrets the first I came with you to this house. I told you then that such a place could draw you out of eternity, that it was as the castles of old. Remember the patterns, Julien, the graceful battlements. And through the mist you will see them, distinct. But you would not have my lessons then. Will you have them now? I know you. You are alive. You didn’t want to hear about death.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“He heard Julien’s voice, with the fancy French accent illuminating the letters, just as surely as the old monks had illuminated letters when they painted them bright red or gold and decorated them with tiny figures and leaves.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Mona wasn’t innocent, except in the most serious sense of the word. That is, she didn’t think she was bad, and she didn’t mean to do bad. She was just sort of a … pagan”
― Anne Rice, Lasher