“ He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu. Thomm Quackenbush
“ She is an angel, how bad could it be?”“Ask the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Most of the time, all the separates a class president and a gang leader is numbers: a zip code, a paycheck, or a drug dealer’s phone number. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"—not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification—we ar… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Snow is both our best friend and worst enemy. Best friend because it shows us in a concrete form the paths other have taken to get where they are. Worst enemy because it will tell such tales of us if… Thomm Quackenbush
“ She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see ag… Thomm Quackenbush
“ That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk and cookies. If an elf escapes and eats royal cookies, it will turn into another… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness. Thomm Quackenbush
“ I am copacetic with leaning on the sacred, but I need to make sure all the mundane bases are covered before we break out the crystals and incense for a good chant. Thomm Quackenbush
“ They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children. Thomm Quackenbush
“ She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls. Thomm Quackenbush
“ The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right? Thomm Quackenbush
“ The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Societ… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude. Thomm Quackenbush
