Kitty

“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“We are our own gods and our own demons”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Twilight Watch