Thomm Quackenbush Quotes

I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human – though of course they are – and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?

~ 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

The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security of this can they let themselves learn better strategies.

~ 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

Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion cannot be giving them what they think they want, since it is unreasonable to want to be hateful.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.

~ 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

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

I hate those people who say you always find the one when you stop looking for her. It is the advice you least want to hear when what you think you need most is someone to love. At best, it comes off like being asked to not think of a white elephant. The elephant becomes the only thing you can think of.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

~ 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

We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?

~ Thomm Quackenbush

She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration of her emotion, some way to be in control of a body that could toss her about with seizures. It was borderline artistic to mark her body, chiaroscuro designs in blood. Dying is the last thing she would want, like any healthy organism. A little pain, a small invoked sting trailing her arm, brought her much closer to grounded when she could not keep her head from racing, her thoughts from consuming her with obsession. An ounce of liquid weight loss and she could go back to being herself again. Usually.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

If psychics are real, it implies that the universe is far vaster and stranger than conventional perception would state. If psychics can talk to the dead, that removes the sting of mortality and loss. It also suggests there is predestination, a way to cheat the vagaries of Fate with foreknowledge. The cost for believing in them is tiny indeed compared to that.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You can’t exist on this plane for long purely one thing or another. A totally evil creature is so destructive that it obliterates itself. A totally good one… the same. So, we mix a bit of coffee with our cream.

~ 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

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

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

~ 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

Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I tried turning my back on all this, but it is inside me. Like when I was little and you read me that story of the girl who hated footprints and shadows, so she tried to run away from both. But her shadow was always there, and she only made more footprints by running.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

We need the life… We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

She felt that “truthful” and “honest” were two very different concepts. She could truthfully say that she hadn’t eaten Roselyn’s Chinese leftovers, but that wasn’t honest because it omitted that Eliot did and that Shane did not object.

~ Thomm Quackenbush