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121 " As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
122 " She 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 , Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
123 " She 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. "
124 " I 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 , Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
125 " To 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. "
126 " They 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. "
127 " None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , We Shadows (Night's Dream, #1)
128 " Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious. "
129 " Trying 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… "
130 " We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die. "
131 " Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire? "
132 " She 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. "
133 " As 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. "
134 " Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag? "
135 " Her 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. "
136 " I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people. "
137 " She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls. "
138 " If 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. "
139 " Do 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 , Flies to Wanton Boys
140 " You 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. "