Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel Quotes

“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“I don't want to feel better; I want to know better.
I should haven known that God is not in the meal
but in the sharing of the meal. I should have told you
that holiness resides in needing each other,
in acts of survival made generous”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“Professionals yammer on about the “mental health crisis” in These Turbulent Times, like, GEE I WONDER if it has anything to do with most people being constantly in a state of desperation to sell their joy to oligarchs forever and ever?”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“God has granted you free will but the police tell you otherwise.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“Each, in their own way, loves what hurts them. At first you love what hurts you because you don't know anything else is possible, as though it were intuitive to hold a knife by the blade. You do this long enough and your wounds may not heal but they do grow familiar. You do this your whole life, and the handle becomes a weapon in it's own right, the blood-letting extension of your grasp. Now you are no longer so helpless. Now you are a calloused palm wielding a bludgeon, and that is not nothing.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“Why does God create grapes and wheat but not wine and bread? God does this because God wants us to share in the act of creation.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

“Decide that you will definitely, absolutely die and make a sign of the cross that turns into a shrug halfway through.”
― Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel