Perzephone

“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find the answer as to why we were ever alive. [...] Do you realize that! We'll never know why the hell any of it happened, not even when it's over! We're going to die and not even know. We'll never know, and all this meaningless will just go on and on and on. And we won't any longer be witnesses to it. We won't have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We'll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Aristotle

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat