The Witching Hour Quotes

“I heard the first raindrops strike the porch roof beneath her. I felt them on my face: I saw the trees begin to move in their fury. And I heard the wind, wailing as if he were wailing, lashing the trees and crying in his grief as he had on the death of my mother, and on the death of her mother. Yes, it was a storm for the death of the witch, and I was the witch. And it was my death and my storm.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Telling people-did it ever make things better?”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“What a smile. What a dazzle. How I wished for an instant that I had loved him.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“How curious it is that these religious people believe the devil to be so stupid that he should seek to corrupt only the poor and powerless-why not the king of France for once?”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.

I hate midnight.”
― Erica Cameron, Sing Sweet Nightingale

“He heard Julien’s voice, with the fancy French accent illuminating the letters, just as surely as the old monks had illuminated letters when they painted them bright red or gold and decorated them with tiny figures and leaves.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“I would have given you my secrets the first I came with you to this house. I told you then that such a place could draw you out of eternity, that it was as the castles of old. Remember the patterns, Julien, the graceful battlements. And through the mist you will see them, distinct. But you would not have my lessons then. Will you have them now? I know you. You are alive. You didn’t want to hear about death.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“I want to come back. I want to remain earthbound, to stay, to be part of this house. But God, I swear it, in my soul of souls, it is not greed to live again, it is that the tale is unfinished, the demon continues, and I die! I would help, I would be an angel of the Lord somehow. Oh, God, I do not believe in you. I do not believe in anything but Lasher and myself.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Julien, how you misunderstand me and everything that I have done. All these years, I’ve striven to bring us together, to make us strong in number and influence. Do you think I would hurt a child that has your blood? Cortland’s daughter? Oh, Julien, you break my heart. Trust in me, that I know what I do, that I have done everything right for our family. Trust in me, please, Julien, don’t die in agitation and fear. Don’t let this happen to you. Don’t let the last hours be ugly with fear. I’ll sit with you night and day if I have to. Die calm. We are the Mayfair family…a million leagues from where we were at Riverbend so long ago. Trust that we shall prevail.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“They adjust, I believe that’s the word. They adjust and they reach for the stars in their own way. I tell you it’s wondrous to me. They make me think of the wildflowers that grow in the cracks of the pavements, just pushing up into the sun, no matter how many feet crush them down”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“How many centuries must pass before the blood of so many has soaked deep enough into the earth to be forgotten?”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“Unable to sleep and in despair, [former Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown] reflected on previous generations who had lain awake at the witching hour - the soldiers in trenches, the women in the pains of childbirth. He chastises himself for lying awake worrying about being tired the next day, for being anxious about his ability to perform in a maiden speech.”
― Fleur Anderson, On Sleep

“I was poisoned by love, that in the call of Suzanne I was awakened to love, and to the nightmare of want.”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour