R/B Mertz > Quotes

“Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her or done what she never would have—a mom who believes in Love.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

“How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

“Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

“It makes a big difference', she said, as we left the restaurant, 'not having words for a thing. It makes whole parts of the world totally invisible.'
'And yourself,' I said, knowing it was true without being able to explain it.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

“Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had a crush on her, would she react that way?”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

“In reality, it was just people talking to each other, through centuries—carvings on walls, poems, radio waves, TV signals, and the internet—telling stories to show each other what we can survive, the chorus of survivors, of bad women and queers, of teachers and artists, repeating that same thing over and over in all the different languages: Get up, come out: resurrect yourself.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

“It makes a big difference," she said, as we left the restaurant, "not having words for a thing. It makes whole parts of the world totally invisible."
"And yourself," I said, knowing it was true without being able to explain it.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch