Thomas Tessier > Quotes

“Books were mysterious, frightening, thrilling, disturbing, uplifting, nurturing, endlessly available and always accommodating.”
― Thomas Tessier, World of Hurt: Selected Stories

“He looked outside once more. It was like a Bosch painting, except that Bosch lacked the imagination or nerve for this horror. In some forlorn part of his brain Neil heard Abba singing “Fernando” in a tinny voice.”
― Thomas Tessier, World of Hurt: Selected Stories

“We have to imagine and create, we have to fantasize, or there's nothing. Passion, desire, romance-those things don't exist unless we make them happen”
― Thomas Tessier, Ghost Music and Other Tales

“He picked up a handful of grass and squeezed it in his fingers, letting the blades fall back to the ground, two or three at a time. It felt cold and wiry.”
― Thomas Tessier, The Nightwalker

“But all the photograph told Heidi was that the answers, if there were any, were lost in the wanting and needing and doing. Ghostly figures, caught in a brutal flash of light, and then gone.”
― Thomas Tessier, Secret Strangers