Jernigan's Quotes

#1. Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here's a new writer who has found his voice. Listen to him and enjoy!

James Patrick Kelly

#2. Without Your life I know there is no life. For I was dead in sin and You gave life to me! Without Your life I'd surely rather die! Lord Jesus, live Your life through me! You are life to me!

Dennis Jernigan

#3. That a woman who managed to be both a virgin and a mother is often presented as God's standard for womanhood and can be frustrating for those of us who have to work within the constraints of physical law.

Rachel Held Evans

#4. There is a fountain who is a King.

Dennis Jernigan

#5. The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Louis Theroux

#6. Men deluded themselves when they believed in better days, some bygone era when the sun shone brighter. Better days had never existed. Joy had always been stolen, and sweeter because of that fact.

Zachary Jernigan

#7. Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I'm in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.

David Anthony Durham

#8. If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.

Dennis Jernigan

#9. Without a path to redemption, a man would watch the world burn. With a measure of hope, the same man ...
Well. He would not be the same man, would he?

Zachary Jernigan

#10. She could not trust people who wore all their "weird" on the outside. It left so little within to discover.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. He patted the side of the wyrm's head. The animal did not react: it was a stone fallen from the sky, still smoldering.

Zachary Jernigan

#12. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

Joseph Sobran

#13. If souls existed, they resided in flesh.

Zachary Jernigan

#14. Though [Jesus'] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.

Billy Graham

#15. Men and women who had worn suits for decades traded punches powerful enough to crush elephant skulls, dodged and deflected attacks too fast for the eye to follow, and died suddenly, often before the crowd registered the killing blow.
Victors and dead men were separated by a blink of the eye.

Zachary Jernigan

#16. Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It's easier to navigate the world without that burden.

Zachary Jernigan

#17. The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

James L. Buckley

#18. I want him to know the game is over. No more Castles. The real gunslingers are here. Let's see if he can deal with them.

Stephen King