7 Quotes & Sayings By Jm Mcdermott

J.M. McDermott is a teacher and writer. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been published widely in magazines and anthologies including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Oyez, Columbia Review, Literary Review of Canada, Prairie Fire, The Isthmus, Verse Daily and Cimarron Review. She was the fiction editor for The MacGuffin Review from 2010-2012 Read more

In 2014 she won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for her work in The MacGuffin Review. She teaches at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and was a columnist for The Tyee from 2010-2015. J.M.'s recent publications include the novel "Her Name Was Nora," a collection of short stories titled "The Clerk’s Palace," a biography of Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, a book of poems about dogs titled "Doggy," and a collection of poetry called "The Book of Answers."

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Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things. J.M. McDermott
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He said I was trapped. He had trapped me. I told him to carefully consider what trapped animals do when they do not wish to be trapped. J.M. McDermott
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Cages everywhere I went. I was no better off in Saxonia, excepting only for the threat of vigorous, royal incest. Perhaps this also means that a princess is only a particularly desirable kind of monstrous creature--a lure that must be kept in a box at all times. J.M. McDermott
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This man was being kept alive by those machines. Someone was trying to help him. They were just trying to help. All the horrible things we've seen are just people trying to help, aren't they? To make the work a little easier, and the world a little easier for people to live in. And it turned into a nightmare. J.M. McDermott
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Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal. I was broken. I will heal. It is certainty that destroys the souls of men. J.M. McDermott
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You ask me to make a promise? I am in a cage. No promise I make is trustworthy because I would do anything to be rid of this cage. Promise me that you will not treat me like an animal or a spectacle, and I will see what I can do. J.M. McDermott