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01c. 2011 AD

Even in concept, angels are unsettling. They’re like drones, totally mindlessly following the will of God. The only difference between the Heavenly angels and demons is that the demons opted to follow after a different queen bee. So, you have these eyeball speckled, part animal monsters who exist only to worship and obey God. They don’t have a moral compass, they just act.

Thomm Quackenbush / quote

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02c. 2011 AD

Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.

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03c. 2011 AD

Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk and cookies. If an elf escapes and eats royal cookies, it will turn into another Santa. That’s what all those mall Santas are. They’re trying to start their own festive colonies.

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04c. 2011 AD

I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood.

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05c. 2011 AD

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.

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06c. 2011 AD

Even if one is doing nothing more than eating Chinese food with one's Muslim and Jewish friends (don't order the pork lo mein), being together on the longest nights of the year, as the cold sets into the ground and makes it crunch, the warmth inside is infectious and transcendent.

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07c. 2011 AD

The whole concept of some stranger making his way down our chimney - not that we had one - suggested burglary more readily than generosity. Any Santa who tried it would have gotten a bullet in his holly, jolly keister.

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08c. 2011 AD

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.

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09c. 2011 AD

The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.

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10c. 2011 AD

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.

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11c. 2011 AD

We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.

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12c. 2011 AD

He's very good at chaining girls. He can make cold steel feel like silk.

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13c. 2011 AD

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.

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14c. 2011 AD

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

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15c. 2011 AD

You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.

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16c. 2011 AD

That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.

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17c. 2011 AD

If it took eons to get to the edge of one's galactic yard, she could not imagine the neighbors dropping by for a casual visit, especially since the heavenly houses were uninhabitable well into the next state.

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18c. 2011 AD

If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me.

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19c. 2011 AD

I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as 'flying saucers' to describe the motion of their flight, like a saucer skipping over water. Yet immediately after, people saw and photographed saucer-shaped objects. Boomerang-shaped objects were rarely seen. Now people mostly report seeing large triangles instead of discs or boomerangs, because that is what they are told to expect to see.

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20c. 2011 AD

He dances all night, utterly naked and composed of nothing but six and a half feet of pale sinew. He could dance to a field of crickets, to the sound of rain on a tin roof, to a stampede.

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21c. 2011 AD

Is there a term for when you are only gay for the top half of someone?”“I think that makes you bisect-ual.

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22c. 2011 AD

She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.

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23c. 2011 AD

Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life.

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24c. 2011 AD

If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

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