Top 120 Thomm Quackenbush Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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 indifferent chaos in the hands of wanton boys.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

2. “The salacious pictures lost context and daring, turning into contorted masses of flesh. If one couldn’t escape a plague of breasts, if they swarmed, they ceased to be erogenous.”

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “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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6. “It is a new day, new month, new year, but it isn’t a new you. You are the same person dealing with the same problems that you cannot dispatch by tearing off the calendar page. Solutions come incrementally, however much the sliding into magical thinking seems permissible when grass lies under a foot of snow.”

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7. “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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8. “His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.”

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9. “All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.”

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10. “We are much too hot to feel the cold.”

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11. “Is the Easter Bunny a space alien trying to trick us into implanting us with his eggs? Because I will so swear off chocolate right now.”

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12. “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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13. “I mean every word of my divine chaos.”

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14. “They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.”

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15. “You know about witches, wizards. You can envision dragons, even if you presently think you are above believing in them. You doubt magic, but you have a word for it. Isn’t that a strangeness that wears at you? All these things that you know all about, but you think you are above. Did you used to be able to shape the spell children use to find lost things in the grass? Did you always know to look at the sky, at stars, when you make your wishes? Who taught you the things your soul has always known?”

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16. “You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.”

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17. “I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood.”

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18. “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 thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them.”

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19. “The witch who claims to forbear her magick for fear of causing the next Indian tsunami is really saying that she is powerful enough to kill thousands of innocent strangers when all she meant to do was water her mugwort. She can’t be challenged to produce evidence of this, because doing could provoke earthquakes and Africanized bee attacks.”

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20. “The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word.”

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21. “Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.”

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22. “Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter, but she could do without.”

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23. “In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.”

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24. “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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25. “As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.”

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26. “There weren’t always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.”

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27. “I see no reason that a man should have any issue with worshiping a goddess any more than a woman would in worshiping a male deity. It is undeniable that women, particularly in the Abrahamic faiths, have been doing just that for thousands of years, though they do like to sneak in the divine feminine under the cloak of the Virgin Mary.”

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28. “Though her body fit with his like a puzzle piece, his mind was an ever-shifting riddle she felt she could study her whole life and never fully solve. She spent the most time touching him, caressing him, massaging the secrets from his shoulders and embarrassments from his lower back.”

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29. “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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30. “Any divinity that can’t see me as a good witch in street clothes has no business hanging up a shingle as a god.”

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31. “Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism.”

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32. “A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.”

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33. “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 many millions unless this spiritual ennui ceases. How many catastrophes have people expected in the last few decades? How many times have humans expected the End Times?”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Isn’t Santa just a stand in for the society that has locked them up for formative years? Something that watches and judges, telling them that they got what they deserved based on their behavior? Surely they have to have noticed that Saint Nick, like the judicial system itself, tends to look more favorably upon rich children. He is fat, white, past middle age, and holds all the cards.”

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36. “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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37. “If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.”

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38. “Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.”

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39. “There is no harm in being used. We all use one another daily. But were you misused by me? I can think of no one alive who could have performed better under the demands of your fate.”

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.”

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43. “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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44. “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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45. “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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46. “Isn’t watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?”

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47. “His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn’t bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn’t going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl’s kisses are deliberate and polished. When she kisses me – when I kiss her – she doesn’t want me. She has me and knows it.”

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48. “Grammar is like your overarching compulsion. It’s math with words.”

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49. “I could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them.”

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50. “She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths.”

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