Gary Reed

“They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

“and yet the intimation of a view of her character opposite to his own, gave instantaneous distinctness to a thousand dim suspicions, which now grinned at him like so many demons.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

“And so the father of lies is the father of inversions, and as a lie exists in parasitic relationship to the truth, so the Enemy exists in relationship to God, the inversion of the good.”
― Jonathan Cahn, The Dragon's Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days

“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad