01UndatedYou 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 / quote ↗
02UndatedThough 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedHe 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedThose who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
06UndatedLike 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedYou would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
09UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
10UndatedAnger 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 ↗
11UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedWe 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen 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 / quote ↗
14UndatedYou're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
15UndatedWithin you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
16UndatedShe 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedMy life of sin among people I’m sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
18UndatedA 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 / quote ↗
19UndatedLove and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
20UndatedWe're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
21UndatedThey had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
22UndatedNow, 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 / quote ↗
23UndatedOpening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
24UndatedShe sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved.Thomm Quackenbush / quote ↗
