“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Age Copy Share Image
“That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort,… — Thomm Quackenbush Aliens Copy Share Image
“She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys… — Thomm Quackenbush Chisel Copy Share Image
“She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about… — Thomm Quackenbush Animals Copy Share Image
“They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more… — Thomm Quackenbush Dreams Copy Share Image
“She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely… — Thomm Quackenbush Heart Copy Share Image
“Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.” — Thomm Quackenbush Death Copy Share Image
“If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“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 Analysis Copy Share Image
“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 Animal Copy Share Image
“The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly… — Thomm Quackenbush Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that… — Thomm Quackenbush Better way Copy Share Image
“He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid… — Thomm Quackenbush Childhood Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to… — Thomm Quackenbush Aliens Copy Share Image
“Her straw-colored pigtails did not qualify her to be Rapunzel and could not be spun to gold by imp fingers, she was… — Thomm Quackenbush Beauty Copy Share Image
“They do not like evidence like that, anything too definite because our first instinct is to find flaws and debunk. They want… — Thomm Quackenbush Aliens Copy Share Image
“You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Balance Copy Share Image
“Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.” — Thomm Quackenbush Kiss Copy Share Image
“Is the Easter Bunny a space alien trying to trick us into implanting us with his eggs? Because I will so swear… — Thomm Quackenbush Alien Copy Share Image
“If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.” — Thomm Quackenbush God Copy Share Image
“It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces.” — Thomm Quackenbush Communion Copy Share Image
“As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abuse Copy Share Image
“Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our… — Thomm Quackenbush Bible Copy Share Image
“The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the… — Thomm Quackenbush Death Copy Share Image
“A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bad decisions Copy Share Image
“You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.” — Thomm Quackenbush Goddess Copy Share Image
“I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted… — Thomm Quackenbush Adventure Copy Share Image
“I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman… — Thomm Quackenbush Christian Copy Share Image
“She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.” — Thomm Quackenbush Blind Copy Share Image
“It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Anything after we returned from vacation was a hot autumn day, taunting me with promises of February snow piles.” — Thomm Quackenbush Autumn Copy Share Image
“He forestalls death with an orange pill bottle, just a few more weeks, fifty pills at a time.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.” — Thomm Quackenbush America Copy Share Image
“Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash… — Thomm Quackenbush Children Copy Share Image
“If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would… — Thomm Quackenbush Compassion Copy Share Image
“Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abuse Copy Share Image
“He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.” — Thomm Quackenbush Communication Copy Share Image
