The Reign of Osiris Quotes

“We are all born without our consent. Should it really be so thoroughly shattering to be reborn the same way.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“You have balanced power with wisdom, despite your rash acts.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“Life is too strong to be contained. It is never destroyed. Divorced from the flesh, it moves through all matter and form to find flesh again.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“All life seeks rebirth when removed from the mortal realm. All life, through its very nature, returns.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“No mortal lives long enough to forget their great loves entirely, do they?”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“This isn’t war.” It was clear his pronouncement had confused everyone, so Ramses continued, “This isn’t war. In war, a man had his sword. In war, the battle was won when the king for the other side fell. Victors were determined by either the persistence or exhaustion of human will. These things contained the battle. But these machines, it’s as if man has tried to make a weapon out of thunder and believes he can control the skies. The result will be an unending storm that mercilessly tramples all those sent to battle and any innocents near it.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“His sudden need and urgency a reminder of how recently he’d been freed from the dark, from death. And how easily convinced he was it might try to reclaim him.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“I have lost you, my king, these words said. I sent you forth on this mission and now I have lost you. And it is my burden to retreive you.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“There is no weakness in grief. There is no weakness in love. No one can rule without them.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“It doesn’t weaken us as women, as immortals, to follow our love, even if it leads to a man.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“You were mortal when you raised him. And he was a miracle to you as he was for me. And I imagine you grieve for him much as I do.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“Never ad his ancient mortal past and his immortal present collided with such clarity and force.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“This was a living, radiant being. A woman, she realized, but dressed in the smart clothes of a wealthy man, with a head of brown curls and eyes so startlingly blue Anya lost her breath.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“It would be a living thing once more soon, his embrace said, and so even now it required tenderness.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“In ones so ancient, submission is but a quiet veil before a cosmos of private thoughts. It’s not submission so much as seclusion.”
― Anne Rice/Christopher Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“For with solitude had come freedom.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“Both men practically fell all over themselves to agree. She felt a stab of guilt. Part of what she’d just said was a lie. But hardly a damnable one. In fact, she’d read the entirety of his journals—thirty-five volumes from a lifetime of expeditions to Egypt—in a single day’s time. And she’d memorized every word. These were talents afforded her by the same elixir that had changed the color of her eyes to blue, that ensured her tangle of brown curls remained the same length and the same shining luster. That made her flesh and bones all but indestructible. That had given her the gift of eternal life.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“There is no weakness in grief. There is no weakness in love.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“Again it was words that healed. Words and memory.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“No mortal lives long enough to forget their great loves entirely, do they.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“I am...unfinished.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“Death is the collapse of time.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“Sometimes we are blinded by the translation we want to be true, and not the one that is correct.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“But truly, who has greater power than the god of death?”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“The will of a single god can be felt by all but those who are lost in delusion.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“I believe a single god waits for us beyond the dark”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“Only if, upon stepping into the next great realm of existence, the afterlife itself, you insist on looking backwards, of turning away from the dazzling experiences that await you in favor of clinging to the physical past. Only then is it not transcendence.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“But what would everything entail? The nothing I understand too well. But the hope for everything that is where religions differ. Cultures differ. Nations Differ.

Answers, illumination, insight.

But do you truly believe the need for these answers will pass with you into the next realm? What if these needs are just petty human appetites that lose their hold over us when the heart ceases to beat? Once you step across the threshold, perhaps all concern and frustration and rage about the physical existence you just endured will leave you as the soul leaves the flesh.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“When it comes to death, I fear I shall be met by nothing, but I hope I will be embraced by everything.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris

“I like to think I'm too humble to declare there's nothing. After we die, that is.”
― Anne Rice, The Reign of Osiris