450 Quotes by Thomm Quackenbush

My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.

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

One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.

You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again.

There’s always someone stumbling upon the weird and thinking they are the first.

[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess.

She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits.

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

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.