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.

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

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?