Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.