“Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.” — Thomm Quackenbush Fear Copy Share Image
“Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Backbiting Copy Share Image
“All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.” — Thomm Quackenbush Cell phone Copy Share Image
“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.” — Thomm Quackenbush Christmas Copy Share Image
“Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bacon Copy Share Image
“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Underneath all their deserved frustration with the mongoose is often the sort of love one might have for the black sheep of… — Thomm Quackenbush Annoyance Copy Share Image
“Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose… — Thomm Quackenbush Novelist Copy Share Image
“My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won't be a point where… — Thomm Quackenbush Life Copy Share Image
“But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until… — Thomm Quackenbush Alien Copy Share Image
“There is no real time, only one moment immediately after creation where God asked humanity to join Him. What humanity perceives as… — Thomm Quackenbush God Copy Share Image
“Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one… — Thomm Quackenbush Infatuation Copy Share Image
“The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what… — Thomm Quackenbush Alien Copy Share Image
“Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.” — Thomm Quackenbush Expectations Copy Share Image
“Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest… — Thomm Quackenbush Flings Copy Share Image
“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.” — Thomm Quackenbush Heart Copy Share Image
“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship… — Thomm Quackenbush Belief Copy Share Image
“She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.” — Thomm Quackenbush Belief Copy Share Image
“The seed of an urban legend finding fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Roselyn lost her taste for bacon momentarily, which was as long as she was ever capable of losing it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bacon Copy Share Image
“She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bella swan Copy Share Image
“None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.” — Thomm Quackenbush Facts Copy Share Image
“I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Kissing a stranger because that is what is done presages an unhappy year not for any supernatural reason, but because you are… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“If you try to leave me like this, I will haunt you until the end of your days. I will drop out… — Thomm Quackenbush Commitment Copy Share Image
“He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the… — Thomm Quackenbush Animal Copy Share Image
“I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became… — Thomm Quackenbush Adolescence Copy Share Image
“She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly… — Thomm Quackenbush Death Copy Share Image
“They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting… — Thomm Quackenbush Admonish Copy Share Image
“Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed… — Thomm Quackenbush America Copy Share Image
“Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness… — Thomm Quackenbush Awkwardness Copy Share Image
“[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats… — Thomm Quackenbush Bisexuality Copy Share Image
“He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one… — Thomm Quackenbush Fear Copy Share Image