J Raines

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Think of us as symbols—we’re the dream that humanity creates to make sense of the shadows on the cave wall.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods