Brom Bones

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye

“We keep the wolves outside by living well.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.”
― Jane Bled