{"author":"Thomm Quackenbush","author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush","total_quotes":285,"quotes":[{"text":"Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["bacon","carnivore","ethical","ethics","food","hamburgers","suffering","vegetarian"],"id":224,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"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.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["inexplicable","light","mystery"],"id":465,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"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.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["honest","honesty","truth","truthful"],"id":1266,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels,” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["age","holiday"],"id":1610,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"Everyone you meet is an aspect of the gods and has a lesson to teach you.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["gods","lesson","people","teach"],"id":1781,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don’t want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["fear","men","power","powerful","teaching","violence"],"id":1797,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"Time owed an alliance to the undying.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["alliance","death","time"],"id":2408,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["cry","crying","vulnerable"],"id":6487,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["bella-swan","darkness","edward-cullen","twilight","vampire"],"id":7574,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. It riled some innate feminist... That the princesses were strongest when they were acting like the men...","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["disney","feminism","feminist","girls","princess"],"id":7723,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":285,"pages":29,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}