“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
“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
“She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys… — Thomm Quackenbush Creation Copy Share Image
“Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her… — Thomm Quackenbush Beauty 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
“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
“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
“Kissing a stranger because that is what is done presages an unhappy year not for any supernatural reason, but because you are… — Thomm Quackenbush Dissatisfaction Copy Share Image
“If it took eons to get to the edge of one's galactic yard, she could not imagine the neighbors dropping by for… — Thomm Quackenbush Aliens Copy Share Image
“He's very good at chaining girls. He can make cold steel feel like silk.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bondage Copy Share Image
“Humanity expects there to be vast conspiracies, even if they will not admit it in polite company. It is understood shadowy conspirators… — Thomm Quackenbush Business Copy Share Image
“Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.” — Thomm Quackenbush Glitter Copy Share Image
“Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of… — Thomm Quackenbush Masturbation 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
“As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abuse 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
“Is the Easter Bunny a space alien trying to trick us into implanting us with his eggs? Because I will so swear… — Thomm Quackenbush Aliens Copy Share Image
“A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bad decisions 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
“It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally… — Thomm Quackenbush Reputation Copy Share Image
“She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about… — Thomm Quackenbush Animals Copy Share Image
“We can mourn and grieve and will face innumerable sunsets without him. But we will still face the sunsets.” — Thomm Quackenbush Grieve Copy Share Image