I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

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.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

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.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.