“ Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting. Thomm Quackenbush
“ [His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability. Thomm Quackenbush
“ You get a few of them together and don’t be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Angels are just beyond us. They’re creatures that biology doesn’t apply to. They don’t love humanity at all. They just love God. Thomm Quackenbush
“ The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures? Thomm Quackenbush
“ Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are i… Thomm Quackenbush
“ She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Like measuring light as a particle or wave makes it what the observer expects, so too does assuming things about reality make it so. I fear the conclusion people gear up for is the wholesale demise of… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Other young women were more than kind when it came to teaching him the basics of makeup artistry, but he did not like the idea of foundation, knowing enough alchemy to realize it had historically been… Thomm Quackenbush
“ There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when sh… Thomm Quackenbush
“ I am able to separate the mythological aspects of my religion from the practical ones. Jesus, his sacrifice, the Gospels? Those are true to me. Angels, demons, burning bushes, Revelations? Primitive p… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Shane lingered over a sickly sweet bit of doggerel comparing accepting Christ into one’s life with turning a pumpkin into a Jack-o-Lantern. “It sounds like God is seriously going to mutilate you.”Rose… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Nature was beautiful and filled with spirituality without needing to be likewise full of spirits. Thomm Quackenbush
“ When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious degre… Thomm Quackenbush
“ She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn’t know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don’t know and you don’t know you know and you don’t know you don’t know. She may… Thomm Quackenbush
“ If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far. Thomm Quackenbush
