“I don't work in places with papier-mâché and cellophane hearts.” — Thomm Quackenbush Hearts 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
“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
“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
“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 Alive 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
“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
“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
“The winding turns around capes, the unclouded sky, the flower mottled hills existed only as an aspect of waiting. Towns, civilization, meant… — Thomm Quackenbush Forest Copy Share Image
“Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away.” — Thomm Quackenbush Apathy Copy Share Image
“No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a… — Thomm Quackenbush Alone Copy Share Image
“Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.” — Thomm Quackenbush Crazy 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
“Devareux also made mention of finding "angel hair" that melted when touched but was so radioactive as to break a Geiger counter,… — Thomm Quackenbush Cemetery 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
“She could not trust people who wore all their "weird" on the outside. It left so little within to discover.” — Thomm Quackenbush Weird Copy Share Image
“We half-eat cookies and drink the milk, we leave notes, all so kids will believe in something that isn’t true. Kids try… — Thomm Quackenbush Analysis 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 Life Copy Share Image
“The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly… — Thomm Quackenbush Astronomy 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
“Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.” — Thomm Quackenbush Doubt Copy Share Image
“Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one… — Thomm Quackenbush Infatuation Copy Share Image
“Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed… — Thomm Quackenbush America Copy Share Image
“It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving… — Thomm Quackenbush Flavor Copy Share Image
“Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—” — Thomm Quackenbush Cross Copy Share Image
