Dr. Cat in the Brain

“Some primeval force must truly be at work when the lamb can be made into a lion.”
― Bill Wasik, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

“Blackness ate inward from the corners of my vision. Reality crumpled and bloomed like a cigarette burn on a movie screen. The hole let into an alternate universe, where the scene unfolded bloodily.”
― Laird Barron, Black Mountain

“So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.”
― V.S. Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

“They sat contemplating towns to come and the poor fanfare of trumpet and drum and the crude boards upon which their destinies were inscribed for these people were no less bound and indentured and they watched like the prefiguration of their own ends the carbonized skulls of their enemies incandescing before them bright as blood among the coals.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West