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01Undated

He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campus—those who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin tone—partly because he couldn’t bring himself to avoid tempting trouble. He agreed with all their points, but understood that they were freer to make them purely because they had the money to build a wall around their experiences. That was what people did, wasn’t it? Ignore the majority of experience and actively disengage from those telling them otherwise.

Thomm Quackenbush / quote

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02Undated

She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits.

Thomm Quackenbush / quote

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03Undated

Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.

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04Undated

Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.

Thomm Quackenbush / quote

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05Undated

No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives in other lands.

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06Undated

Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away.

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07Undated

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

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08Undated

The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.

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09Undated

Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.

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10Undated

The problem is not that Santa stops existing but that we do. The children we are no longer exist, a fact we do not help through immersing ourselves in the repeating cycle of wake, work, dinner, internet, sleep.

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11Undated

[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist.

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12Undated

The witch who claims to forbear her magick for fear of causing the next Indian tsunami is really saying that she is powerful enough to kill thousands of innocent strangers when all she meant to do was water her mugwort. She can't be challenged to produce evidence of this, because doing could provoke earthquakes and Africanized bee attacks.

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13Undated

She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths.

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14Undated

She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

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15Undated

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

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16Undated

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

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17Undated

If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels,” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.

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18Undated

The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.

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19Undated

The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word.

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20Undated

One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.

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21Undated

My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard.

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22Undated

Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal.

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23Undated

Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.

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24Undated

The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger.

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