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1 " 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
2 " Books were mysterious, frightening, thrilling, disturbing, uplifting, nurturing, endlessly available and always accommodating. "
― Thomas Tessier , World of Hurt: Selected Stories
3 " 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
4 " 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. "
5 " 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