“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
“She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.” — Thomm Quackenbush 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 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 Copy Share Image
“She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.” — Thomm Quackenbush Blind 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
“Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.” — Thomm Quackenbush America Copy Share Image
“He forestalls death with an orange pill bottle, just a few more weeks, fifty pills at a time.” — Thomm Quackenbush 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
“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 knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt… — Thomm Quackenbush Admonish Copy Share Image
“Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that… — Thomm Quackenbush Magic 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
“You got a vicious animal inside you. It wants to snap, it wants to attack, but it's harmless because some woman fitted… — Thomm Quackenbush Animal Copy Share Image
“The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it… — Thomm Quackenbush Christian Copy Share Image
“I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best.… — Thomm Quackenbush 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
“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
“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
“The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Backbiting 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
“Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.” — Thomm Quackenbush 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
“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
“Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.” — Thomm Quackenbush Abuse Copy Share Image
“You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with… — Thomm Quackenbush 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
“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
“As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm… — Thomm Quackenbush Catholic school 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
“The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for… — Thomm Quackenbush Anxiety 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… — Thomm Quackenbush Alien Copy Share Image
“He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“I tried turning my back on all this, but it is inside me. Like when I was little and you read me… — Thomm Quackenbush Fear 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
“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 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