“ Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say… Thomm Quackenbush
“ If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes an… Thomm Quackenbush
“ He wouldn’t be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people ha… Thomm Quackenbush
“ I feel as though I have leapt off this massive cliff and I am still building my wings… Everyone just assumes I know how to fly, but I am pretty sure I am only falling gracefully and hoping to miss the… Thomm Quackenbush
“ I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest. Thomm Quackenbush
“ He dances all night, utterly naked and composed of nothing but six and a half feet of pale sinew. He could dance to a field of crickets, to the sound of rain on a tin roof, to a stampede. Thomm Quackenbush
“ The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body. Thomm Quackenbush
“ As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology. Thomm Quackenbush
“ The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass. Thomm Quackenbush
“ I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as 'flying saucers' to describe the motion of their flight, like a… Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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 eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourt… Thomm Quackenbush
“ The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what was actually going on. She would not be surprised if the gover… Thomm Quackenbush
“ They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans. Thomm Quackenbush
“ The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need only tweak somethi… Thomm Quackenbush
“ My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father. Thomm Quackenbush
