When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious degrees irrespective of gender.

— Thomm Quackenbush

Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"—not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification—we are overjoyed with his potential. Here is one who has a stronger foundation on which to build, one who will not knock down his every success like a child with a brick castle to see if the adults will keep helping him rebuild.

— Thomm Quackenbush

When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first-rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.

— Thomm Quackenbush

When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I can rattle on about magma cooling, biogenesis, and natural selection.

— Thomm Quackenbush

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

— Thomm Quackenbush

Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

— Thomm Quackenbush

Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing.

— Thomm Quackenbush

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

— Thomm Quackenbush

You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.

— Thomm Quackenbush

You can’t exist on this plane for long purely one thing or another. A totally evil creature is so destructive that it obliterates itself. A totally good one… the same. So, we mix a bit of coffee with our cream.

— Thomm Quackenbush