“ The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted. Thomm Quackenbush
“ He was a fixture of the New Paltz community, an inexplicable light switch in the new apartment that definitely turns something on but you can't quite say what. You flick it whenever you get home and i… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words. Thomm Quackenbush
“ If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty of knowing one is loved by something beyond compreh… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled rather than that he… Thomm Quackenbush
“ I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses. Thomm Quackenbush
“ We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar. Thomm Quackenbush
“ I don't know what my future will bring me and it's terrifying. To stand before this vast expanse and know that the future could take away what matters most simply because that is the nature of indiffe… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves. Thomm Quackenbush
“ She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two. Thomm Quackenbush
“ I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked. Thomm Quackenbush
“ They ignored her because of their headphones, a thousand people marching to fifteen hundred different drummers, effectively secluded but for a very basic instinct not to bump into one another. Those t… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life. Thomm Quackenbush
“ At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. It r… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the t… Thomm Quackenbush
