“I don't work in places with papier-mâché and cellophane hearts.” — Thomm Quackenbush Hearts Copy Share Image
“You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abducted Copy Share Image
“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.” — Thomm Quackenbush Emotion Copy Share Image
“Aw, so he used you as a penis cozy and then left? Guys are pigs.” — Thomm Quackenbush Dump Copy Share Image
“College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.” — Thomm Quackenbush Blossoming Copy Share Image
“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Age Copy Share Image
“American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.” — Thomm Quackenbush America Copy Share Image
“She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.” — Thomm Quackenbush Child Copy Share Image
“Roselynn appraised Shane as she would an interesting rock, saying nothing. However, Roselynn was the sort much enamored of rocks.” — Thomm Quackenbush Rocks Copy Share Image
“She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her… — Thomm Quackenbush Future Copy Share Image
“If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him… — Thomm Quackenbush Grope Copy Share Image
“Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.” — Thomm Quackenbush Clarity Copy Share Image
“Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.” — Thomm Quackenbush Chew 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
“Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are… — Thomm Quackenbush Admonish Copy Share Image
“Were genuine aliens to find us… the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the… — Thomm Quackenbush Alien Copy Share Image
“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 Commercial Copy Share Image
“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 Christian Copy Share Image
“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any… — Thomm Quackenbush Adolescence Copy Share Image
“The whole concept of some stranger making his way down our chimney - not that we had one - suggested burglary more… — Thomm Quackenbush Burglar Copy Share Image
“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had… — Thomm Quackenbush Children Copy Share Image
“Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty… — Thomm Quackenbush Belief Copy Share Image
“She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was… — Thomm Quackenbush Beauty Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty.… — Thomm Quackenbush Bulimia Copy Share Image
“Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell… — Thomm Quackenbush Agape Copy Share Image
“Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has… — Thomm Quackenbush Affection 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
“There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers.… — Thomm Quackenbush Drained Copy Share Image
“I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I… — Thomm Quackenbush Independence Copy Share Image
“She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration… — Thomm Quackenbush Cutting Copy Share Image
“We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.” — Thomm Quackenbush Death Copy Share Image
“Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy.” — Thomm Quackenbush Books Copy Share Image
“In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.” — Thomm Quackenbush Decay Copy Share Image
“Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.” — Thomm Quackenbush Glitter Copy Share Image
“He's very good at chaining girls. He can make cold steel feel like silk.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bondage Copy Share Image
“Love could not save her from the bargains others had made.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bargain Copy Share Image
