450 Quotes by Thomm Quackenbush

Every year my feet touch its murky water, my soul feels cleaner.

Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.

The problem is not that Santa stops existing but that we do. The children we are no longer exist, a fact we do not help through immersing ourselves in the repeating cycle of wake, work, dinner, internet, sleep.

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

She felt that “truthful” and “honest” were two very different concepts. She could truthfully say that she hadn’t eaten Roselyn’s Chinese leftovers, but that wasn’t honest because it omitted that Eliot did and that Shane did not object.

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. The elephant becomes the only thing you can think of.

Anything after we returned from vacation was a hot autumn day, taunting me with promises of February snow piles.

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.