Find What You Love and Let It Kill You Quotes

“Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Her straw-colored pigtails did not qualify her to be Rapunzel and could not be spun to gold by imp fingers, she was too active to be Sleeping Beauty, too outspoken to be Cinderella, too keen on tall fellows to be Snow White. She held little carriage with sleeping upon legumes to display her regal daintiness and imagined that the only result would be a mushy, green stain on the underside of her mattress. Her eyes met the criteria only of the evil, ice queen.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“We can mourn and grieve and will face innumerable sunsets without him. But we will still face the sunsets.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where I want to be. She is not some inanimate savior, she has wings of her own to flutter and soar. I intend to fly beside her, to tumble through the air in loops and gambols, to carry her when she grows tired, to keep her warm beneath them against raging winds.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“I hate those people who say you always find the one when you stop looking for her. It is the advice you least want to hear when what you think you need most is someone to love. At best, it comes off like being asked to not think of a white elephant. The elephant becomes the only thing you can think of.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“It’s hard to stay upset over someone else’s happy ending.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“He was a fixture of the New Paltz community, an inexplicable light switch in the new apartment that definitely turns something on but you can't quite say what. You flick it whenever you get home and inexplicably feel a sort of relief, promising yourself that you'll figure out the wiring one of these days, but not today. Today, you are a bit too busy and this curious switch isn’t hurting anything by being a mystery.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“There is no real time, only one moment immediately after creation where God asked humanity to join Him. What humanity perceives as time, all of history, is the hesitation in saying "Yes.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“He forestalls death with an orange pill bottle, just a few more weeks, fifty pills at a time.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed doors, there simply isn't an elegant way of asking someone of your gender to hang out for the first time.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Love could not save her from the bargains others had made.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Maybe the world didn’t need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever could. It didn’t matter if one was disobedient, foolish, or unlucky, because the worst things just happened.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Death doesn't give you control over anything. Death ends your control.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You