Scarabaeus Quotes & Sayings

Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy ... The biological speculation rings with truth and possibility, the terraforming-gone-wrong creates an environment of delicious creepiness, and Creasy's imaginatively-constructed universe draws the reader in, to follow Edie and Finn's quest for freedom. — Vonda N. McIntyre

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults. — Brian Sutton-Smith

You can regret the end of her life forever. Or you can remember her and honor the life she lived. — Jessica Scott

becoming like the gods" by mixing humanity with both animals and machines, — Rob Skiba

We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution. — Hannah Arendt

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest. — Ambrose Bierce

a man who could tell that terrible lie, live with that terrible lie, had something missing inside him. — Nora Roberts