Book: Whatever horror he witnessed, whatever acts of barbarism it was done by men, nothing more.

Jayne: Reaver's ain't men.

Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization perhaps, but men. And, I believe there's a power greater than men. A power that heals.

Mal: Reavers might take issue with that philosophy...if they had a philosophy...and they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides. Jayne's right. Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Come to just nothin'. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothin', and that's what they became.

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