Flies to Wanton Boys Quotes

“You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“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.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“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.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“It’s about Nietzsche’s theory of universal debt. Your parents make it possible for you to believe a far better myth than Santa. They let you think that you, as a kid, don’t owe the world a thing. The world can give you, even if just for a few minutes, utter joy without requiring anything from you. It’s not about consumerism. As far as you know, no one buys you these presents. They come out of nothingness, with fantasies of elves attached. You aren’t required to be grateful to your parents or anything like that. They can give to you and nothing is required in return. When you get old enough, when you have kids, you get to enact this myth for them. It has nothing to do with any fat man in a red suit, no matter what we tell ourselves. It’s about owing nothing, and then realizing that you have to do this job of perpetuating this… this fantasy world, whether you like it or not.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Is there a term for when you are only gay for the top half of someone?”
“I think that makes you bisect-ual.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“It’s not like I’m the first siren to ever make it big… Play ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ on a road trip some time and tell me everyone in the car doesn’t stop what they are doing to sing.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“We are much too hot to feel the cold.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“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.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“I was a monster until you dared to treat me as a man.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“What marvelous fortune to have lived to see a world that would one day make you.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Crimes for a greater good are still crimes.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Everything mortal wears a chain with its death on the other end. None of you should escape that you are on earth only a very short time, but you all think you have figured out how to be gods. Tell me the story of the man who sees his death and loves it as much as it loves him.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“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.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She’s practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“I could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter, but she could do without.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn’t know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don’t know and you don’t know you know and you don’t know you don’t know. She may not know what she does know.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“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?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“There’s always someone stumbling upon the weird and thinking they are the first.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Grammar is like your overarching compulsion. It’s math with words.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campus—those who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin tone—partly because he couldn’t bring himself to avoid tempting trouble. He agreed with all their points, but understood that they were freer to make them purely because they had the money to build a wall around their experiences. That was what people did, wasn’t it? Ignore the majority of experience and actively disengage from those telling them otherwise.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“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.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“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?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“You will find that we simply provided the noose. You built the gallows, mounted the steps, put your neck in the rope, and jumped.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

“His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys