Vittorio, The Vampire Quotes

“We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“The sun shocked me, and made me sicken, yet how I wanted it, how I longed for it, and yet it rebuked me and seemed to scourge me as if it were a whip.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“Let Mastema say," said Ramiel.

"Go back to Heaven!" said Setheus.

"Please, the both of you, be quiet," said Mastema.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“What am I? Do I live? Or am I walking always in death, forever in love with time?”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“Behold, I tell you, the light is there in you I see it. I see it in each and every one of us, and will always. I see it when I hunger, when I struggle, when I slaughter. I see it sputter and die in my arms when I drink.
Can you imagine what it would be like for me to kill you?
Pray it never takes a slaughter or a rape for you to see this light in those around you. God forbid it that it should demand such a price. Let me pay the price for you instead.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“Beauty carries us to our doom.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“I delve in all, and blend without prejudice, and that some higher good pertains to what I do, I cannot doubt.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio: The Vampire

“You squirm on the end of a hook, you’re a doomed catch from the sea, and you do not even know that you are no longer in the life-sustaining water.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“How steady yet pulsing was this orgy of fierce light!”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“Revenge is a lure, a mighty molten lure, even if it is hopeless!”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“I saw in him a species of fear as real as that which I had seen in the young forest, but it was even more innocent for all his age, and all his wrinkles, and the wetness of his lips with the wine. He looked fatigued by that which he couldn’t comprehend.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“I had never seen anything as beautiful as this painting, with its immense crowd of still attentive faces, its splendid collection of angels and saints, its lithe and graceful feline women and willowy celestial men. I went crazy for it.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made by immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“I know nothing of those heroes of macabre facts masquerading as fiction.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“It is a vision of every human being, bursting with fire and with mystery, a vision I cannot deny, nor blot out, nor ever turn away from, nor ever belittle nor ever escape.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“I knew that things human would lose all love of this place, as they had lost their love of so many ruins in the country round.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“It wasn’t so like the dream, but then again it was, because these things were above and full of the verdant smell of the wild, and the sylvan woods were gently heaving their limbs on the scented wind.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“Do I live? Or am I walking always in death, forever in love with time?”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“It was a drunken labyrinth of a garden gone wild under the naked night.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“This darkness had a calming effect on me. The open country sank into a deep dark tinge of blue beneath the pearly heavens, and I could see the forests encroaching on the tilled land, creeping higher here and there, as the hills folded over one another or sank steeply into valleys of pure blackness.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire

“And won’t you take absolution from me, Vittorio!” he said. His voice rose, and his chest seemed to increase in size. “Vittorio and Ursula, take my absolution.”
“No, Father,” I said. “we cannot take it. We don’t want it.”
“But why?”
“Because, Father,” said Ursula kindly, “we plan to sin again as soon as we possibly can.”
― Anne Rice, Vittorio, The Vampire