13 Quotes by J.M. McDermott

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.

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.

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.

Where does a city begin? Where does it end?