Blood Communion Quotes

“I've loved you more than any being in all the world whom I've ever loved.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

“I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you,” he confided to me. “You are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so much that you’ve been my instructor in loving. And believe me when I say you will survive this, and that you must for all of us. You will survive because you always have and you always will.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“The edge of sleep can be such a precious time.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“Don’t ever think that two is enough,” Benedict said. “Don’t ever imagine it. And don’t ever be crippled by believing that you cannot live without one other being, and only that being. You must have more than that to love, because loving, loving keeps us alive, loving is our best defense against time, and time is merciless. Time is a monster. Time devours everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“I understand the very definition of "hate" when I think of you.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“I wrestled as well with my passion for life, my lust for pleasure, for music, and beauty, and comfort and sensuality, and the inexplicable joys of art—and the baffling majesty of loving another so much that all the world, it seemed, depended on that love.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“Seems I’d read somewhere, or heard it in a film, that the Jews believe each life is a universe, and if you take a life, well, then you are destroying a universe. And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“the Jews believe each life is a universe, and if you take a life, well, then you are destroying a universe.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“I hate you as much as I have ever loved you.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

“And your eyes pass over me as if I don't exist.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

“And you have never given me your love.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

“Do it for a world that will never knew you or thank you, but a world that you can now truly save.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“I love the sounds of the French Quarter on mild nights…laughter, chatter, gaiety, Dixieland jazz drifting out of open doors, rock music pounding somewhere—an eternal carouse.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“But then I do not remember everything, as I once thought I did. There is something in us, even us, that will not allow for that, something that pushes the memory of suffering that is unbearable slowly away.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy,” he said gently. “We’re good at it, and proud of it, and we get better and better at it, and we simply don’t know what it means to be happy.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“Soe of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“You must have more than that to love, because loving, loving keeps us alive, loving is our best defense against time, and time is merciless. Time is a monster. Time devours everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“and only by the coldest act of will did I avoid falling into a black pit of grief, so black that it would blind me to anything and everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“Out, out, brief candle.” Such comforting remembrance can turn in an instant to agony.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“Ultimately they will all disappoint you.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“I’d demeaned and insulted those who didn’t know how to be happy. Yes, I was determined to be happy. And I fought furiously for ways to be happy.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“And believe me when I say you will survive this, and that you must for all of us. You will survive because you always have and you always will.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“I love; therefore I am.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“I love; therefore I am”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

“The entire history of evil in this world is related to what human beings do to one another in order to survive.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion