Serapian Quotes & Sayings

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end. — Victor Hugo

Why didn't you come back?" he sobbed.
"I waited and waited for you, like I said I would, but you never came back! Why? Why didn't you come back? I love you I love you I love you. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. — J.G. Ballard

If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet — Jess Walter

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. — Edwidge Danticat

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. — Mos Def

You always get what you unconsciously believe and expect. — Joe Vitale