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181 " Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , We Shadows (Night's Dream, #1)
182 " 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
183 " I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing. "
184 " I am copacetic with leaning on the sacred, but I need to make sure all the mundane bases are covered before we break out the crystals and incense for a good chant. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
185 " I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)
186 " Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town. "
187 " Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , A Creature Was Stirring
188 " She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night. "
189 " Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
190 " American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
191 " Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed doors, there simply isn't an elegant way of asking someone of your gender to hang out for the first time. "
192 " Isn’t Santa just a stand in for the society that has locked them up for formative years? Something that watches and judges, telling them that they got what they deserved based on their behavior? Surely they have to have noticed that Saint Nick, like the judicial system itself, tends to look more favorably upon rich children. He is fat, white, past middle age, and holds all the cards. "
193 " If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree. "
194 " He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation. "
195 " 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. "
196 " The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew. "
197 " The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up. "
198 " Kissing a stranger because that is what is done presages an unhappy year not for any supernatural reason, but because you are unsatisfied enough with your lot in life to put your lips on the line for a fallacy. "
199 " I miss more loving someone so deeply that I can't imagine a forever without her kisses. "
200 " Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered. "