“ It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls manage… Thomm Quackenbush
“ My mother buys a handful of wishing beans, which just seem to be white, dry beans with no specific magickal import. She will parse these out over the months when she feels her family members most need… Thomm Quackenbush
“ There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish… Thomm Quackenbush
“ But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don't flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what they’ve been told all their live… Thomm Quackenbush
“ [T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar. Thomm Quackenbush
“ If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life. Thomm Quackenbush
“ She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Is there a term for when you are only gay for the top half of someone?”“I think that makes you bisect-ual. Thomm Quackenbush
“ If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me. Thomm Quackenbush
“ If it took eons to get to the edge of one's galactic yard, she could not imagine the neighbors dropping by for a casual visit, especially since the heavenly houses were uninhabitable well into the nex… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin. Thomm Quackenbush
“ We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world. Thomm Quackenbush
“ He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from eve… Thomm Quackenbush
“ She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue. Thomm Quackenbush
“ The whole concept of some stranger making his way down our chimney - not that we had one - suggested burglary more readily than generosity. Any Santa who tried it would have gotten a bullet in his hol… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Even if one is doing nothing more than eating Chinese food with one's Muslim and Jewish friends (don't order the pork lo mein), being together on the longest nights of the year, as the cold sets into… Thomm Quackenbush
