May Day Quotes

“Ten years in Minneapolis, and I had nothing but an English degree and a drinking problem to show for it. So that’s how people ended up back in a small town.”
― Jess Lourey, May Day

“My head was just circling things, so I had to pull out all those squirming thoughts and nail 'em to the paper.”
― Jess Lourey, May Day

“In my experience, the more aggressive a woman is, the less guilty she seems. Or maybe it's the guiltier an aggressive woman is, the less rational she becomes. That's a hard thing to judge from the inside.”
― Jess Lourey, May Day

“For me, birds fell in the same category as snakes—weird, dirty, and to be avoided—yet I fed them obsessively, kind of an offering to the bird kingdom to keep them pacified. If all the birds banded together, humans would be in some kind of trouble, and I wanted to be on the right side of that fight.”
― Jess Lourey, May Day

“~like most entitled folks, she was immune to negative body language. It really was hard to shame the ignorant.”
― Jess Lourey, May Day

“I grabbed a stack of hardcovers from the return bin, read the spines, and strolled over to the Pl–Sca aisle, thinking the only thing I really didn’t like about the job so far was picking up magazine inserts from the floor. Certainly, the library patron must notice them fall, but without fail, gravity was too intense to allow retrieval except by trained library staff. I bet I found three a day.”
― Jess Lourey, May Day

“father died, to help her adjust to her new reality. He was making the best of his current life—working at the nursery, teaching Community Ed gardening classes, and playing around with”
― Jess Lourey, August Moon: Humor and Hijinks

“The woman rolled her eyes so loud I could hear it.”
― Jess Lourey, October Fest