For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.
Anne RiceFor always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.
Anne RiceI left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.
Anne RiceTo be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.
Anne Rice