450 Quotes by Thomm Quackenbush

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

The ocean touched the horizon uninterrupted, the air so pure that nothing obscured the edge of the world. I understood then the madness of sailors as they abandoned all sight of land for the first time, of those who thought the world flat or the sea full of gods more ancient than time.

Whether ghosts exist, it was silly to go to an expensive, infamously haunted inn if you didn't at least want to pretend. There was no need to be the sort of person who goes to a horror movie and points out it is all fake. We know. It's a movie. We suspended our disbelief when the lights dimmed. You are not made erudite by waving at the projectionist.

The hauntings died down, as it were, since exhumed bones were taken off display and interred elsewhere. A lack of archaeological ghoulishness will do that.

Crimes for a greater good are still crimes.

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.

Naps are not a sign of physical slovenliness. They are a sign that I am listening to my body. It will reward me with stable emotions, hormones that stay in check, social finesse, continued cleverness, and the ability to write prose that does not make me gag.

Cities pour forth a virus. Humans are infected and told to build cages that no one should want to live in. Or cities are a pyramid scheme: everyone is supposed to be there, I am an everybody, so I will move there and bring two others, who will bring two more.