Mayfair Witches Collection Quotes

“Spiderwebs broken and torn in a wind that is indifferent to their beauty.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“Remember me not for my weakness, for my sins, or for my poor judgment. But that I loved you.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“Ah, Stefan, give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“He got away with those affairs because he was never inattentive to Ellie. Some of the other guys around here should take a lesson from that. What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they’ll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“She’d always liked to listen to people, especially when they talked so much that she didn’t have to say anything much herself.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“I struck him down for Deborah, and for all the poor and ignorant women I have seen screaming in the flames, for the women who have expired on the rack or in cold prison cells, for the families destroyed and for the villages laid waste by these awful lies.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“It’s Stella. Stella’s got the gift and she’ll get everything when I die.’ ‘And what’s the gift, Miss Mary Beth?’ my mother asked her. ‘Why, Stella’s seen the man,’ Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. ‘And the one who can see the man when she’s all alone inherits all.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“THE TALAMASCA We watch
And we are always here.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“And we, the crew, are bonded together, in spite of anger, or resentment, or competition. We are bonded and there is a form of love whether we acknowledge it or not.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“And there persisted in her a sense of Michael’s dangerous innocence, his naivete, which seemed to her to be connected to his attitudes about evil. He understood good better than he did evil.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“As time passed, Michael lost a little faith that he would ever have the love he wanted.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“A dread came over him. Everything around him was gray. Nothing tasted good or looked good. It was as if a metallic gloom had gripped his world, and all colors and sensations had paled in it.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“fixe,”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“And the thunder sounds like something remembering something.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“Be old enough and patient enough for kinds of love, seasons of it, be quiet in your soul so that when happiness comes again, if it ever does, you will know.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“That was the most maddening and annoying aspect of old age. If you could add two and two people clapped for you! They clapped. It was true. It was pathetic.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“they knew by the stark silvery power that came from you, what everybody thinks is coldness and cunning, but was never anything but unwelcome strength.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“thought of themselves as Irish, often making remarks to that effect; and that they emerged in the consciousness of many who knew them—servants and peers alike—as almost stereotypically Irish in their madness and eccentricity and penchant for the morbid. Several critics of the family have called them “raving Irish loonies.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“The dead are so close they can hear us, she thought. “Ah, but you see,” said the tall white-haired Ryan, as if he’d read her mind, “in New Orleans, we never really leave them out.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“I love you,” he said. “Why?” “Because you are beautiful to me. Because you can see me. Because you are all the things in a human being which I myself desire. Because you are human and warm and soft. And I know you, and have known the others before you.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“The thirteenth is simply the strongest, Rowan, the one who can be the doorway for this thing to come through. You are the doorway, Rowan. That is why there were twelve crypts, and not thirteen, in the tomb. The thirteenth is the doorway.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos

“fancy traps to capture a past that had never existed, to create a feeling of solidity for people who lived moment to moment in a fear of death bordering on hysteria.”
― Anne Rice, The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos