Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.
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.
Perhaps this is the only real evil left.
Evil is just a point of view
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?