“Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.” — Thomm Quackenbush Doubt Copy Share Image
“Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy.” — Thomm Quackenbush Books Copy Share Image
“We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.” — Thomm Quackenbush Death Copy Share Image
“You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abducted Copy Share Image
“I don't work in places with papier-mâché and cellophane hearts.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…” — Thomm Quackenbush 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
“Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.” — Thomm Quackenbush Bacon 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
“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.” — Thomm Quackenbush Heart 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
“Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abuse Copy Share Image
“Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could… — Thomm Quackenbush Belief Copy Share Image
“Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“He’s the kind of kid who, just looking at him, you know gets bullied by the older boys and takes it out… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then… — Thomm Quackenbush Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I hate those people who say you always find the one when you stop looking for her. It is the advice you… — Thomm Quackenbush Advice 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
“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate… — Thomm Quackenbush Dating 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
“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
“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
“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
“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going… — Thomm Quackenbush Bisexual 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
“He was a fixture of the New Paltz community, an inexplicable light switch in the new apartment that definitely turns something on… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought it was a weak metaphor of… — Thomm Quackenbush Heart Copy Share Image
“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.” — Thomm Quackenbush Emotion Copy Share Image
“Death doesn't give you control over anything. Death ends your control.” — Thomm Quackenbush Control Copy Share Image
“All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.” — Thomm Quackenbush Cell phone Copy Share Image
“Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—” — Thomm Quackenbush 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
“The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Backbiting Copy Share Image
“He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.” — Thomm Quackenbush Communication Copy Share Image
“Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
