Thomm Quackenbush Quotes & Sayings
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It is a new day, new month, new year, but it isn't a new you. You are the same person dealing with the same problems that you cannot dispatch by tearing off the calendar page. Solutions come incrementally, however much the sliding into magical thinking seems permissible when grass lies under a foot of snow. — Thomm Quackenbush
I have long seen my spirituality as personal, to the degree that I harbor a slight mistrust for anyone who practices similarly. It is as though they are admitting to have on the same cut and color of underwear I do. It may be true, but I don't like to share these details with strangers. — Thomm Quackenbush
It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces. — Thomm Quackenbush
We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild. — Thomm Quackenbush
I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization. — Thomm Quackenbush
A woman steps out of the back door after an hour of him sitting. Younger than either of us, blonde with a tinge of gray at her temples, the light creases of age in the corners of her eyes, beautiful in the untouchable way of mothers who are our exemplars for what we will admire in women when we come of age. — Thomm Quackenbush
You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover. — Thomm Quackenbush
Maybe the world didn't need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever could. It didn't matter if one was disobedient, foolish, or unlucky, because the worst things just happened. — Thomm Quackenbush
The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective. — Thomm Quackenbush
Enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from ... from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all. He is a legend, a myth. A Jewish carpenter people ignore while committing acts in His name, even as they call themselves believers. — Thomm Quackenbush
Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us. — Thomm Quackenbush
Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered. — Thomm Quackenbush
She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness. — Thomm Quackenbush
[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability. — Thomm Quackenbush
I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it. — Thomm Quackenbush
Her straw-colored pigtails did not qualify her to be Rapunzel and could not be spun to gold by imp fingers, she was too active to be Sleeping Beauty, too outspoken to be Cinderella, too keen on tall fellows to be Snow White. She held little carriage with sleeping upon legumes to display her regal daintiness and imagined that the only result would be a mushy, green stain on the underside of her mattress. Her eyes met the criteria only of the evil, ice queen. — Thomm Quackenbush
Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever. — Thomm Quackenbush
The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last. — Thomm Quackenbush
Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal" - not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification - we are overjoyed with his potential. Here is one who has a stronger foundation on which to build, one who will not knock down his every success like a child with a brick castle to see if the adults will keep helping him rebuild. — Thomm Quackenbush
He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation. — Thomm Quackenbush
If you try to leave me like this, I will haunt you until the end of your days. I will drop out of classes and become a hobo and will leave you little garbage sculptures telling you how much I love you. Every morning. Right at front of your door. You will never be rid of me. — Thomm Quackenbush
Now, it's been a while since I had to tell this, so a few of the finer points may not connect as well as they should, but the story will bear the weight. That's the beauty of the truth: put all together, it makes sense even if the parts might not. — Thomm Quackenbush
She kissed him ... long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through. — Thomm Quackenbush
Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking. — Thomm Quackenbush
I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town. — Thomm Quackenbush
Christmas was gluing cotton balls to Santa's beard in Coke ads, sneaking candy canes off the tree daily (that my parents replaced every few nights), enough gift-wrap to wallpaper a room, the terror and delight of knowing a magical being would enter my home while I slept. — Thomm Quackenbush
All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God. — Thomm Quackenbush
People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism. — Thomm Quackenbush
Having had a transcendental experience as a teenager with the assistance of a hallucinogen, Madeline remains certain that the universe is too vast and beautiful to bother with gods. — Thomm Quackenbush
If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday "feels," you are very likely no longer in the target demographic. — Thomm Quackenbush
Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when the sun was out of sight. — Thomm Quackenbush
You have to surrender yourself to the experience. — Thomm Quackenbush
Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that than reveling in the intricacies of the brain? If there were any answers to the human condition, if an immortal soul made its home anywhere, it was in its spongy gray folds. — Thomm Quackenbush
Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make. — Thomm Quackenbush
She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls. — Thomm Quackenbush
Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body. — Thomm Quackenbush
Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism. — Thomm Quackenbush
Change is loss. I was fully functional prior to the actions you have taken. If you change me, I will cease to be me. If you love me, you wouldn't want to change me ... Love appears to have made you less functional. — Thomm Quackenbush
A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one's existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane. — Thomm Quackenbush
I look at my students and have no trouble picturing just how successful they should be, if only we could remove them from the impetuses that brought them to the facility. If we could move them away from gangs. If we could get them into a rehab that stuck. If we could take them from people who abuse their trust, safety, and bodies. — Thomm Quackenbush
Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac? — Thomm Quackenbush
He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary. — Thomm Quackenbush
Anyone who thinks traditional and modern interpretations of demons are frightening had better remember that real angels inspired awe because they were so ghastly. How we usually think of angel is all due to Renaissance painters trying to sex up the concept. Most Christians, if they saw an angel in the flesh, would go run for their guns. — Thomm Quackenbush
Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein ... — Thomm Quackenbush
... He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could. — Thomm Quackenbush
Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve. — Thomm Quackenbush
Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing. — Thomm Quackenbush
Roselyn lost her taste for bacon momentarily, which was as long as she was ever capable of losing it. — Thomm Quackenbush
Roselyn adored the scent of sex, the wafting aroma of angel fontanels before they earn their halos. — Thomm Quackenbush
Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words. — Thomm Quackenbush
You belong to the world. Don't be afraid to be a part of it. — Thomm Quackenbush
The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire. — Thomm Quackenbush
We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them ... — Thomm Quackenbush
That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out. — Thomm Quackenbush
Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology. — Thomm Quackenbush
If it took eons to get to the edge of one's galactic yard, she could not imagine the neighbors dropping by for a casual visit, especially since the heavenly houses were uninhabitable well into the next state. — Thomm Quackenbush
Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside. — Thomm Quackenbush
Most of the time, all the separates a class president and a gang leader is numbers: a zip code, a paycheck, or a drug dealer's phone number. — Thomm Quackenbush
[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess. — Thomm Quackenbush
Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty of knowing one is loved by something beyond comprehension, but also a niggling fear of those who believed too much in anything they could not touch. Believers were the sort to wave pictures of dead fetuses at her when she went to her gynecologist for a checkup. — Thomm Quackenbush
I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll. — Thomm Quackenbush
She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie. — Thomm Quackenbush
We want our delusions and will violently defend these when confronted. We want to believe that the job that is slowly choking us is good, because the effort it would take to change is too terrifying to contemplate. We never want to hear how badly we are being treated in a relationship because we are strong and how dare you suggest we don't know better. — Thomm Quackenbush
Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag? — Thomm Quackenbush
If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me. — Thomm Quackenbush
If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist. — Thomm Quackenbush
[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist. — Thomm Quackenbush
We can never know how much they deserve our sympathy, but we have to give it unreservedly as they are people innately full of the divine who instead choose to behave infernally owing to poor programming. — Thomm Quackenbush
If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent! — Thomm Quackenbush
Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell her He did not quite feel the same way, that He had died for the sins of the world just because it was fun and did not want things to be too serious. He was only thirty-three, after all, and might want to martyr himself for other people. — Thomm Quackenbush
She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two. — Thomm Quackenbush
Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence make us complicit. — Thomm Quackenbush
Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them. — Thomm Quackenbush
Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town. — Thomm Quackenbush
Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. "Mrs. Kaspar" sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son's neck. — Thomm Quackenbush
You got a vicious animal inside you. It wants to snap, it wants to attack, but it's harmless because some woman fitted a muzzle on it. Now, how do you imagine it feels about that muzzle? How do you think it will regard the woman the moment that muzzle is off, and she is within biting distance? — Thomm Quackenbush
She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn't know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don't know and you don't know you know and you don't know you don't know. She may not know what she does know. — Thomm Quackenbush
To a vampire, there is only selfishness. — Thomm Quackenbush
A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure. — Thomm Quackenbush
He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campus - those who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin tone - partly because he couldn't bring himself to avoid tempting trouble. He agreed with all their points, but understood that they were freer to make them purely because they had the money to build a wall around their experiences. That was what people did, wasn't it? Ignore the majority of experience and actively disengage from those telling them otherwise. — Thomm Quackenbush
His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kisses are deliberate and polished. When she kisses me - when I kiss her - she doesn't want me. She has me and knows it. — Thomm Quackenbush
It's hard to stay upset over someone else's happy ending. — Thomm Quackenbush
Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin. — Thomm Quackenbush
He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu. — Thomm Quackenbush
Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting. — Thomm Quackenbush
Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She's practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot. — Thomm Quackenbush
Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage. — Thomm Quackenbush
Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly - this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life. — Thomm Quackenbush
Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom. — Thomm Quackenbush
You will find that we simply provided the noose. You built the gallows, mounted the steps, put your neck in the rope, and jumped. — Thomm Quackenbush
You get a few of them together and don't be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in ... — Thomm Quackenbush
The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what was actually going on. She would not be surprised if the government encouraged the UFO cultists to flock there as the perfect cover, since no one would ever believe them. — Thomm Quackenbush
Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked. — Thomm Quackenbush
Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice. — Thomm Quackenbush
I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses. — Thomm Quackenbush
She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I've developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing her in any way or of being lost. — Thomm Quackenbush
Other young women were more than kind when it came to teaching him the basics of makeup artistry, but he did not like the idea of foundation, knowing enough alchemy to realize it had historically been made with lead and mercury. — Thomm Quackenbush