We Leave Together Quotes

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no memorials to heroes, no gravestones, no paper and no ink.”
― J.M. McDermott, We Leave Together

“Don't joke about this. We're it for each other. There's no one else like us. There's no one else. I really like you. I feel... I don't know what I feel. I feel like I'm better with you. I feel like I'm not so..."

She said nothing. She looked at him with tired eyes. She wasn't listening.”
― J.M. McDermott, We Leave Together

“They have joined with the dust of the world, living as they have always lived, hiding as they've always hid. They die slowly in their own stains and sins.”
― J.M. McDermott, We Leave Together

“Would you die for me, like Jona did for his beloved?
No. You shouldn't die for me, either. Let me sleep.
Liar.”
― J.M. McDermott, We Leave Together

“I can see him now, the victim of labyrinthine machinations that carved away his ears and tongue: a mute prince tossed into a slaver's galley and lost at sea, and at sea until the pink weed filled his head with death, and he fell in step behind the dealer that fed a habit in exchange for cheap muscle. And now, the lost king slept mute among beggar boys and rats spreading crowns in a knighthood of orphans and drugs. Who knows his true history? All we know is his fate among the smoke.”
― J.M. McDermott, We Leave Together