Thomm Quackenbush Quote #1
[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.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #2
…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #3
A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #4
A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #5
A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #6
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 Quote #7
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 Quote #8
All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #9
American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #10
Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #11
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 Quote #12
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 Quote #13
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 Quote #14
As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #15
As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #16
As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #17
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 Quote #18
At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. It riled some innate feminist... that the princesses were strongest when they were acting like the men...
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #19
Aw, so he used you as a penis cozy and then left? Guys are pigs.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #20
Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #21
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.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #22
Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #23
Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #24
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.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #25
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 Quote #26
Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #27
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 Quote #28
College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #29
Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy.
Thomm Quackenbush Quote #30
Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal.
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