Matelots Quotes

“I wished for death," he whispered, and the words took the smile from both our lips.
His gaze met mine again, this time it was earnest and beseeching. "I knew I could not leave you behind, so I planned to kill you first. I could not. I sat here with the pistol at your head for a long time. I thought of...how much you loved me, that you would make such a request, and...I could not. So I am chained here in this life, with you." He shook his head quickly. "Non, that did not sound as it should. I...will not betray you by leaving you alone, and I cannot take you with me, so I will remain, because I love you.”
― W.A. Hoffman, Matelots

“Do not leave me."
"I cnnot."
"Because we are chained together?" I asked sadly.
He frowned in thought. "Non, I feel it is because we are chained to something else?"
"What, a rock?" I asked with amusement.
"Non, a cart."
"So we are two centaurs chained to a cart? What is in the cart?"
"Love," he said soberly. "I think the cart is our partnership.”
― W.A. Hoffman, Matelots

“I am going to kill your father," Gaston said.
"May I hold him down?"
"Will it be necessary?" he asked.
"Non, but I feel I will garner great satisfaction in being a participant.”
― W.A. Hoffman, Matelots

“Every man I had seen who seemed brave in facing another's sword had been either desperate to obtain something or to escape something. I could not think of a single exception. If desperation was not involved, men fought with very clear heads, and there was little bravery about it: none was required because they did not choose to act unless the odds of success were well in their favor.”
― W.A. Hoffman, Matelots

“You have dangerous friends. You need not fear enemies.”
― W.A. Hoffman, Matelots