“ 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. Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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 ha… Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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 sh… Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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… Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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. Thomm Quackenbush
“ You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover. Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand. Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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 nec… Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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 answ… Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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… Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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
“ 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.… Thomm Quackenbush
“ I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people. Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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. Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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. Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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… Thomm Quackenbush
