Why We Left The City Quotes

“We lay up at night, wondering, What sorts of people would we be if we were no longer nervous and frayed?”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“We asked no one in particular what the value of our time was. Anywhere else, it seemed, it would be more.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“Hadn't we been told that now we'd made it here, we could make it anywhere? Only none of us could say, exactly, what it was we'd made.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“Doctors prescribed things to help us sleep, smile, function.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“We were afraid to go on vacation because we didn't know if we could take coming back.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City

“There were parts of the city we hadn't seen in years. They reminded us of people who had left us, and we excised them from our maps before they could spread. It's not the same, we said, it's just not the same. It's not like it was, before. We never said before what, but it was understood.”
― Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City