“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
“Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.” — Thomm Quackenbush Crazy 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
“Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abuse 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Hymen 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Adjectives 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 Gaze 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
“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’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
“You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abusive 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
“The seed of an urban legend finding fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.” — Thomm Quackenbush Fertile soil 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
“He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment… — Thomm Quackenbush Collapsed Copy Share Image
“She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.” — Thomm Quackenbush Hated 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Communicate 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
“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 Corpse Copy Share Image
“You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am… — Thomm Quackenbush Adore Copy Share Image
“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was… — Thomm Quackenbush Alien Copy Share Image
“If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being… — Thomm Quackenbush Chess Copy Share Image
“We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in… — Thomm Quackenbush Angry Copy Share Image
“We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds… — Thomm Quackenbush Bubble Copy Share Image
