Thomm Quackenbush

“Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“To a vampire, there is only selfishness.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I don't work in places with papier-mâché and cellophane hearts.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Love can blind you more than a gunshot.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Death doesn't give you control over anything. Death ends your control.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“There is little worse than when the person to whom you want to apologize is having great sex in your room.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Roselynn appraised Shane as she would an interesting rock, saying nothing. However, Roselynn was the sort much enamored of rocks.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“We half-eat cookies and drink the milk, we leave notes, all so kids will believe in something that isn’t true. Kids try…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“You got a vicious animal inside you. It wants to snap, it wants to attack, but it's harmless because some woman fitted…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best.…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought it was a weak metaphor of…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“The winding turns around capes, the unclouded sky, the flower mottled hills existed only as an aspect of waiting. Towns, civilization, meant…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty.…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“He was a fixture of the New Paltz community, an inexplicable light switch in the new apartment that definitely turns something on…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Aw, so he used you as a penis cozy and then left? Guys are pigs.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Time owed an alliance to the undying.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.”

— Thomm Quackenbush