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The Queen of the Damned

Anne Rice

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

“Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”

“I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.”

“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.”

“Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth”

“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.”

“I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.”

“There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.”

“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”

“You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!”

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