J.M. Redmann > Quotes

“I've always believed," she replied, "that if God is going to be strict about anything, that He will be strict about the rules concerning hate, not love. And if two people love each other, that has to be better than two people hating each other. Beyond that, it's for God to sort out. I'm too frail to be such a judge.”
― J.M. Redmann, Deaths of Jocasta

“Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.”
― J.M. Redmann, Death by the Riverside

“Love is a miracle, not a salvation.”
― J.M. Redmann, Death by the Riverside

“Why? Why not?”
― J.M. Redmann, Death by the Riverside

“All the rainbow banners were still there; the storm [Katrina] had left them intact. Interesting that the gay and bawdy sections of town were the parts least damaged, since some of the so-called religious people were claiming this to be God's punishment for our sinful ways. Perhaps they believed in a god of poor planning.”
― J.M. Redmann, Death of a Dying Man

“I don't know how long I lay in the mud. Perhaps a minute, perhaps a day. Time was a court jester, playing tricks on me. Perhaps another lifetime. Maybe I had been reincarnated as an alligator. Or an innocent beetle feeding on my decaying flesh.”
― J.M. Redmann, Death by the Riverside

“All that remained of the protesters were the few stalwart enough to have survived watching two women kiss. I guess they were afraid if enough people saw how much fun we were having, they would all convert to being queer. Well, it seemed like a good way to prevent abortions to me.”
― J.M. Redmann, Deaths of Jocasta

“All right, I thought, as one long-winded winner ("And I'd like to thanks my parakeet and his veterinarian...") finally exited”
― J.M. Redmann, Death of a Dying Man

“I've always believed," she replied, "that if God is going to be strict about anything, that He will be strict about the rules concerning hate, not love. And if two people love each other, that has to be better than two people hating each other. Beyond that, it's for God to sort out. I'm too frail to be such a judge."

--Deaths of Jocasta”
― J. M. Redmann

“Spring was becoming summer, not yet the oppressive heat of July and August, but sweaty days that were harbingers. Of course, now we had the modern conveniences, air-conditioning, to deal with them in a way Augustine Lamoureaux and her girls on the edge of summer did not. As much as things had changed—and they had—it was still bitter how close so many women lived to the edge. One jealous boyfriend, walking down the wrong street, saying the wrong thing, not being “feminine” enough, bad luck, combined with a few wrong choices—we all make them—and like Tiffany, we would fall forever over the edge.”
― J.M. Redmann, The Girl on the Edge of Summer

“Sometimes you have to let go of as much of the past as you can. It can always come back and grab you, but you don’t need to hold on and make it easy.”
― J.M. Redmann, The Smallest Day

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― J.M. Redmann, The Smallest Day

“He’s paid his debt to society. You can’t keep a man in jail because you think he might commit a crime,”
― J.M. Redmann, Death by the Riverside

“back, I would still be here. Love is a miracle, not a salvation. No one would save me, that I had to seek for myself. But I would find it. I had finally turned to face the hunters with their guns.”
― J.M. Redmann, Death by the Riverside

“The past is gone. Or we should be able to banish the past we wanted gone.”
― J.M. Redmann, The Smallest Day

“We learn—slowly—to carry our losses. We never get over them.”
― J.M. Redmann, The Girl on the Edge of Summer

“Transgender people aren’t freaks or crazy. They are born in a hard place, external features of one sex but the heart, soul, and mind of another. When they change, it means they finally stopped lying.”
― J.M. Redmann, Transitory

“We had gotten too practical, dividing things so we ended up doing them alone to save time. But how you spend time can be more important than saving time.”
― J.M. Redmann, Ill Will