Artificial Gods Quotes

“Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“You have to surrender yourself to the experience.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“She could not trust people who wore all their "weird" on the outside. It left so little within to discover.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“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.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people's relationships simply by existing, but she will always be surmounted as guys come to realize the virtues of the approachable girl next door. She was, in brief, too pretty to be trusted or had.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Were genuine aliens to find us… the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the requirements of their environment. It was only for the convenience of the costume department of Star Trek that people believed in humanoid aliens.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“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.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment of realization collapsed.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Society had made a new myth, a communal idea of something outside a species apparently intent on dooming itself.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when the sun was out of sight.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don't flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having their children buy plastic versions for a quarter.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from...from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all. He is a legend, a myth. A Jewish carpenter people ignore while committing acts in His name, even as they call themselves believers.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what was actually going on. She would not be surprised if the government encouraged the UFO cultists to flock there as the perfect cover, since no one would ever believe them.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“It felt relaxing to be someone else’s myth.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled rather than that he rules.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Humanity expects there to be vast conspiracies, even if they will not admit it in polite company. It is understood shadowy conspirators must thereby be somewhere.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods