Heart Quotes by Thomm Quackenbush

14 Heart quotes by Thomm Quackenbush

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Thomm Quackenbush captures the heart’s everyday impact in brief, punchy lines. Though modest in number, these fourteen quotes give a clear glimpse of his thoughtful take on feeling and purpose.

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“She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.”

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“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…”

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“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.”

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“She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.”

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“As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.”

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“She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her…

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

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“She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys…

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“If it took eons to get to the edge of one's galactic yard, she could not imagine the neighbors dropping by for…

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“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had…

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

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

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“They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more…

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“She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely…

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“The seed of an urban legend finding fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.”

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

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“She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.”

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“Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?”

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

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“He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating her body.…

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“[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her]…

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“She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had…

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“Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not…

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“It’s hard to stay upset over someone else’s happy ending.”

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