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Thomm Quackenbush

We’re not mad,” he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

angry, authority, father, mad, mother, parent, parenting, plural

Thomm Quackenbush

Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make.

cooking, love, meals, parenting

Thomm Quackenbush

A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one’s existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane.

college, forgotten, ignorance, university

Thomm Quackenbush

She felt that “truthful” and “honest” were two very different concepts. She could truthfully say that she hadn’t eaten Roselyn’s Chinese leftovers, but that wasn’t honest because it omitted that Eliot did and that Shane did not object.

honest, honesty, truth, truthful

Thomm Quackenbush

My life of sin among people I’m sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool.

deviants, happiness, honesty, oppression, sexism, sin

Thomm Quackenbush

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

great, greatness

Thomm Quackenbush

You’re like this…this goddess pretending to be human… And I don’t know which one I love.

goddess, human, love, pretending

Thomm Quackenbush

When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.

death, gods, human, paganism, reflection

Thomm Quackenbush

We need the life… We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn’t in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

death, hate, hunger, kill, life, vampire

Thomm Quackenbush

I tried turning my back on all this, but it is inside me. Like when I was little and you read me that story of the girl who hated footprints and shadows, so she tried to run away from both. But her shadow was always there, and she only made more footprints by running.

fear, footprint, hate, running, shadow

Thomm Quackenbush

Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.

anger, energy, transformative

Thomm Quackenbush

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.

anger, bad-day, blood-pressure, composure