J.M. McDermott Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. I learned that every tree fights for sunlight in the canopy, but this happens so slowly that the combat looks like peace.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.

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