Thomm Quackenbush Quotes

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!
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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.
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She is an angel, how bad could it be?”“Ask the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in.
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I feel as though I have leapt off this massive cliff and I am still building my wings… Everyone just assumes I know how to fly, but I am pretty sure I am only falling gracefully and hoping to miss the ground.
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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.
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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.
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As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.
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Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.
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College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.
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Snow is both our best friend and worst enemy. Best friend because it shows us in a concrete form the paths other have taken to get where they are. Worst enemy because it will tell such tales of us if we chance upon it. I find poetry in snow that cannot be resisted. In a way, it is the closest to time travel most civilians will ever manage.
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Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.
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Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.
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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.
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It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.
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Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.
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I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.
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She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again.
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They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.
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My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.
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All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.
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He wouldn’t be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people haunt libraries.
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People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.
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Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.
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Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.
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Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.
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A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.
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The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.
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I mean every word of my divine chaos.
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I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.
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Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.
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I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where I want to be. She is not some inanimate savior, she has wings of her own to flutter and soar. I intend to fly beside her, to tumble through the air in loops and gambols, to carry her when she grows tired, to keep her warm beneath them against raging winds.
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I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.
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Ghosts are some of the loneliest people you will ever meet.
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Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.
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If you can't feel the touch of the gods on your own, it greatly behooves you to work on that before some lecher tells you his touch is just as good.
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The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass.
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Everyone you meet is an aspect of the gods and has a lesson to teach you.
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It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails.
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My mother buys a handful of wishing beans, which just seem to be white, dry beans with no specific magickal import. She will parse these out over the months when she feels her family members most need a wish. She can believe in wishes, since it is the familiar magic of wells, birthdays, and first stars.
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There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.
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But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don't flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having their children buy plastic versions for a quarter.
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Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what they’ve been told all their lives: that they are worthless and that they will die or be incarcerated before they reach twenty-five.
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[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar.
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If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.
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Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life.
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She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.
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Is there a term for when you are only gay for the top half of someone?”“I think that makes you bisect-ual.
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He dances all night, utterly naked and composed of nothing but six and a half feet of pale sinew. He could dance to a field of crickets, to the sound of rain on a tin roof, to a stampede.
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I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as 'flying saucers' to describe the motion of their flight, like a saucer skipping over water. Yet immediately after, people saw and photographed saucer-shaped objects. Boomerang-shaped objects were rarely seen. Now people mostly report seeing large triangles instead of discs or boomerangs, because that is what they are told to expect to see.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.
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A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.
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Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.
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He's very good at chaining girls. He can make cold steel feel like silk.
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We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.
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He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.
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The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.
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She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.
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