01UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
02Undatedenough 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
04UndatedWe 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedFrequently, 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 / quote ↗
06UndatedAs compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
07UndatedShe 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 / quote ↗
08UndatedShe 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
10UndatedTo 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 / quote ↗
11UndatedThey 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedNone of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
13UndatedEthically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
14UndatedTrying 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 / quote ↗
16UndatedIsn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
17UndatedShe 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedAs 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 ↗
19UndatedDo you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
20UndatedHer 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedI have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
22UndatedShe could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
23UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
24UndatedDo 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 / quote ↗
