As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.