Quotes by Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring

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Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: yo — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom. — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Change is loss. I was fully functional prior to the actions you have taken. If you change me, I will cease to be me. If — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not sur — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as rea — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revi — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly n — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and res — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Isn’t Santa just a stand in for the society that has locked them up for formative years? Something that watches and judg — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Kissing a stranger because that is what is done presages an unhappy year not for any supernatural reason, but because yo — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside. — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Naps are not a sign of physical slovenliness. They are a sign that I am listening to my body. It will reward me with sta — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
The problem is not that Santa stops existing but that we do. The children we are no longer exist, a fact we do not help — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
A woman steps out of the back door after an hour of him sitting. Younger than either of us, blonde with a tinge of gray — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels,” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is f — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Christmas was gluing cotton balls to Santa’s beard in Coke ads, sneaking candy canes off the tree daily (that my parents — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Even if one is doing nothing more than eating Chinese food with one's Muslim and Jewish friends (don't order the pork lo — Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring