“I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“We need the life… We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were.… — 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
“Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away.” — Thomm Quackenbush 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 Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world didn’t need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and… — Thomm Quackenbush 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 Heavenly Father… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“The whole concept of some stranger making his way down our chimney - not that we had one - suggested burglary more readily than… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“The seed of an urban legend finding fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?” — Thomm Quackenbush 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 a muzzle… — Thomm Quackenbush 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 her body.… — Thomm Quackenbush 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 on [her]… — 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 she had… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
