Top 100 Quackenbush Quotes
#1. I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses.
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#2. Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. "Mrs. Kaspar" sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son's neck.
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#3. We can never know how much they deserve our sympathy, but we have to give it unreservedly as they are people innately full of the divine who instead choose to behave infernally owing to poor programming.
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#4. The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.
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#6. We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.
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#7. She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.
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#8. Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one's guard to be offered sex under the cloaking of the sacred.
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#9. A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.
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#10. She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.
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#11. Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.
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#12. Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.
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#13. Most of the time, all the separates a class president and a gang leader is numbers: a zip code, a paycheck, or a drug dealer's phone number.
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#14. He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment of realization collapsed.
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#15. 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.
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#16. My life of sin among people I'm sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool.
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#17. He wouldn't be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people haunt libraries.
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#18. We do not require man's religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.
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#19. The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.
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#20. Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what they've been told all their lives: that they are worthless and that they will die or be incarcerated before they reach twenty-five.
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#21. I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.
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#22. You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again.
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#23. Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you.
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#24. 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.
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#26. 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 degrees irrespective of gender.
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#27. I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.
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#29. Roselyn lost her taste for bacon momentarily, which was as long as she was ever capable of losing it.
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#31. I feel as though I have leapt off this massive cliff and I am still building my wings ... Everyone just assumes I know how to fly, but I am pretty sure I am only falling gracefully and hoping to miss the ground.
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#32. I could either succumb to the nightmares I've raised or paint them.
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#33. Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy.
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#34. 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.
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#35. To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.
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#36. Change is loss. I was fully functional prior to the actions you have taken. If you change me, I will cease to be me. If you love me, you wouldn't want to change me ... Love appears to have made you less functional.
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#38. We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them ...
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#39. 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.
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#40. Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest dude.
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#41. Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.
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#42. I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.
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#43. She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it ...
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#44. The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew.
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#45. Nature was beautiful and filled with spirituality without needing to be likewise full of spirits.
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#46. Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter, but she could do without.
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#47. Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers.
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#48. It is difficult to process the sacred masculine when your closest example has been a man smacking you around, verbally degrading you, lording over you, or otherwise proving a poor demonstration of the use of strength.
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#49. He's very good at chaining girls. He can make cold steel feel like silk.
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#50. If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!
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#51. The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside.
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#54. Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence make us complicit.
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#55. She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.
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#56. We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.
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#57. The boys he met at Annandale only understood one kind of woman. They needed to be coddled and cooed over as their own mothers had done their whole lives.
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#58. I have long seen my spirituality as personal, to the degree that I harbor a slight mistrust for anyone who practices similarly. It is as though they are admitting to have on the same cut and color of underwear I do. It may be true, but I don't like to share these details with strangers.
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#60. The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.
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#61. My soul is not satisfied with an inert universe. The gods may not make a habit of speaking to me personally, but I can't help but whisper comments to them.
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#63. Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic.
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#64. 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 ...
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#65. God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.
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#67. 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 not know what she does know.
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#68. Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk and cookies. If an elf escapes and eats royal cookies, it will turn into another Santa. That's what all those mall Santas are. They're trying to start their own festive colonies.
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#70. She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.
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#71. The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.
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#72. Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing.
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#73. Grammar is like your overarching compulsion. It's math with words.
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#74. I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.
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#75. 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.
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#76. You will find that we simply provided the noose. You built the gallows, mounted the steps, put your neck in the rope, and jumped.
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#77. Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.
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#78. The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word.
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#79. People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.
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#80. Aw, so he used you as a penis cozy and then left? Guys are pigs.
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#82. You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren't too picky, when you come to it.
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#83. My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character.
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#84. 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.
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#85. They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities.
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#87. I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.
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#88. Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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?
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#91. 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 rules.
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#92. Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.
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#93. Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that some combined the two and, while she could see how this would improve the magick, it would dilute the sex.
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#94. Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other ... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists ... So, I chose to believe in magic.
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#95. Magic has its own weight, and that weight, the gravity of it, is pulling the fabric of reality like a bowling ball on a spandex sheet.
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#96. Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away.
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#97. Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.
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#98. 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.
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#99. The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.
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#100. Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.
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