Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"She is an angel, how bad could it be?ββAsk the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in."
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"She is an angel, how bad could it be?ββAsk the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"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."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"They wouldnβt have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"He wouldnβt 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."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"Is there a term for when you are only gay for the top half of someone?ββI think that makes you bisect-ual."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"We do not require manβs religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"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. Thatβs what all those mall Santas are. Theyβre trying to start their own festive colonies."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"Even in concept, angels are unsettling. Theyβre like drones, totally mindlessly following the will of God. The only difference between the Heavenly angels and demons is that the demons opted to follow after a different queen bee. So, you have these eyeball speckled, part animal monsters who exist only to worship and obey God. They donβt have a moral compass, they just act."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campusβthose who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin toneβpartly because he couldnβt bring himself to avoid tempting trouble. He agreed with all their points, but understood that they were freer to make them purely because they had the money to build a wall around their experiences. That was what people did, wasnβt it? Ignore the majority of experience and actively disengage from those telling them otherwise."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter, but she could do without."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"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."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"I donβt think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one Iβd want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"The dark places will not be instinctively frightening, true, but isnβt it better that children fear boogeymen than pedophiles? Isnβt it better that libraries are filled to the brim with stories and not only words?"
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"I donβt much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. Sheβs practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
"No divinity worth His salt could be contained in a book."
Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
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