Gary Reed

“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

“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

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

“Oh, how stubbornly does love,—or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart,—how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories