Christopher Rice > Quotes

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.”
― Christopher Rice

“Fear cannot touch me…
It can only taunt me,
It cannot take me,
Just tell me where to go…
I can either follow,
Or stay in my bed…
I can hold on
To the things that I know…
The dead stay dead,
They cannot walk.
The shadows are darkness.
And darkness cannot talk”
― Christopher Rice

“Somedays you have to write even when you think you're putting out crap. You just need to tell yourself that you'll fix the problems later, and by then, they might not even be "problems" anymore. The challenge of writing a novel has always been to let loose with a beautifully flawed first draft, and to constantly fight belief you're chiseling words in stone each time you type.”
― Christopher Rice

“You told me about what you called the light in the darkness. About how life was neither good nor bad, but a combination of both and occasionally good things pop up in the middle of tragedy, but they still don't make the tragedy go away. They can't protect you. They're just light. But what you didn't say is that sometimes, certain people can be a light in the darkness. There are some people in this world who are worth saving when other people decide they shine the wrong kind of light on the wrong kind of things. You have been and will always be my light in the darkness.”
― Christopher Rice

“Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.”
― Christopher Rice

“When an entire group of people come together and try to make some kind of identity out of what they don't have, they usually end up convincing themselves they can do whatever they damn well please.”
― Christopher Rice

“People talked about therapy and change and the power of Christ, but maybe you just had to wake up one day and say you weren't going to do it anymore, you just weren't going to act like someone who felt that way, and you had to begin by saying words that felt strange on your tongue, even if they resonated inside your heart.”
― Christopher Rice

“Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.”
― Christopher rice

“... dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos...”
― Christopher Rice

“Life, according to Stephen, was not a journey out of darkness into light. In fact, dark and light were two arbitrary categories applied to the human spirit in a vain hope that it, too, with all its fleshy influences, would be as orderly as the rise and fall of the sun. The light in the darkness, as Stephen explained it, did not chase away the shadows of fear and regret: It merely illuminated the fears worth fighting. It lit the paths dictated by fate and choice, rather than casting a celestial glow on the way to a better and more perfect world.”
― Christopher Rice

“Anger can give you a false sense of direction when sadness makes you feel lost.”
― Christopher Rice, The Burning Girl #1-2

“Vengeance is always possible, he said, but only if your memory can endure it.”
― Christopher Rice, The Burning Girl #1-2

“You can leave. You just don't want to. And the more you give in to that urge, the more you'll come to believe the lies you're telling yourself about what you are and aren't capable of.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“Is there any training that can prepare you for this moment, being face-to-face with a human monster, a man who seems to glide placidly through the everyday world in a baseball cap, smelling of Old Spice while concealing a gallery of horrors beneath his garage, in the back of his truck, inside his mind?”
― Christopher Rice

“Your skin looks like margarine, and your pants are so tight I feel like congratulating the blood that can get to your ass.”
― Christopher Rice, Light Before Day

“She leaned her head to one side of the pillow to meet her son's eyes. "Never give into them," she whispered. "No matter what they do or how important you feel it is to get their acceptance. Never kill part of yourself for them. Because other people will notice that part is missing before you do.”
― Christopher Rice

“This might be the price of vengeance, she thinks. You have to spend the rest of your life living inside the memories of the worst things done to you so you can constantly justify what you did to avenge them.”
― Christopher Rice, The Burning Girl #1-2

“Any spot where the earth kisses the clouds is a special place, a place where primal truths reveal themselves to those who've acquired the wisdom of solitude.”
― Christopher Rice

“She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she had already gone into mourning for; then he reminded himself that she was the type of woman who mourned damaged reputations and lost opportunities, not human beings.”
― Christopher Rice

“Smartphones, devastating the world one instantly delivered tragedy at a time.”
― Christopher Rice

“Death comes for the dead.”
― Christopher Rice

“ 'I went to one acting coach when I first started who told me that acting is reacting to the stimuli we are presented with. Does that make sense?' John nodded. 'But really, that's life now, isn't it? Because we are not a product of where we came from or what was done to us. We are what we choose to be in every situation that God delivers. And that's why when a thing of beauty enters my life, I rise to the occasion with everything I have. Some people are humbled by beautiful things, John. I'm not. I'm inspired. I go after them with everything I have. Everything.' ”
― Christopher Rice

“He had a nice house in the Norma Triangle section of West Hollywood and an ass that could stop a war.”
― Christopher Rice, Light Before Day

“Never give in to them. No matter what they do or how important you feel it is to get their acceptance. Never kill part of yourself for them.”
― Christopher Rice, (A Density of Souls) [By: Rice, Christopher] [Dec, 2014]

“He’s no different from the scores of college students before him who have all tried to imagine their own utopia. Somewhere along the way, they became convinced that their own fears should dictate how everyone around them lives, and their vision ends up being little more than an excuse to try to destroy those who refuse to agree with them.”
― Christopher Rice (Anne Rice's son)

“You want to be evil, Billy, but you try too fucking hard.”
― Christopher Rice (Anne Rice's son)

“For if death had a voice, it had spoken to him then.”
― Christopher Rice/Anne Rice

“How many times could he say this before it would stop being a comfort?”
― Christopher Rice/Anne Rice

“Two Hispanic boys with swollen chests and enormous sunglasses walked by. One of them whistled at Nate, and then once they were several feet past us, the other turned around and cried, “Love your work!”

Nate stared after them with what I assumed was anger. “My sponsor has me on this whole celebrity thing right now,” he said in a low voice, and I realized his anger was actually desire. The fact that anger felt like desire to Nate might have played a role in his little meth problem.”
― Christopher Rice, Light Before Day