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141 " Though 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 , We Shadows (Night's Dream, #1)
142 " He 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 , Flies to Wanton Boys
143 " You have to surrender yourself to the experience. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)
144 " Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
145 " Like 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. "
146 " You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
147 " A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me. "
148 " I 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. "
149 " Anger 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. "
150 " I 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. "
151 " We 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. "
152 " When 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. "
153 " You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love. "
154 " Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear. "
155 " She 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. "
156 " My life of sin among people I’m sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool. "
157 " A 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. "
158 " Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make. "
159 " They 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. "
160 " Now, 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 , Uncle Christmas