But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

My body is no schoolboy.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

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.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.