Quotes by Thomm Quackenbush

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Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.

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She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through.

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You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.

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She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

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Aw, so he used you as a penis cozy and then left? Guys are pigs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 for my consent!

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Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away.

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My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won't be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.

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To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

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I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, b...

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Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy.

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She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration of her emotion, some way to be in control of a body that could toss her about with seizures. It was borderline ar...

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She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.

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She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her.

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Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—

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I don't work in places with papier-mâché and cellophane hearts.

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I hate those people who say you always find the one when you stop looking for her. It is the advice you least want to hear when what you think you need most is someone to love. At best, it comes off like being asked to not think of a white elephant. ...

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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.

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