Leave No Trace Quotes

  • Tom: Everything's different now.

    Will: We can still think our own thoughts.

  • Will: This is not a drill.

  • Will: I'm so sorry.

    Tom: I know.

  • Tom: What's your favourite color?

    Will: What's *your* favourite color?

    Tom: Yellow.

    [They sit for a moment]

    Tom: What was my mother's favourite color?

    Will: Yellow.

    Tom: Maybe I learnt it from her. I wish I could remember her.

    Will: She'd wish for that, too.

  • Tom: The same thing that's wrong with you isn't wrong with me.

  • Tom: I think it might be easier on us if we try to adapt.

    Will: We're in their clothes. We're in their house. We're eating their food. We're doing their work. We have adapted.

  • Tom: I know you would stay if you could.

  • Vet at VA: At first they're handing them out like candy. Then they pull the leash on us.

  • Tom: Seahorses pair for life. They find each other first thing in the morning to reinforce their pair bonding.

  • Tom: Do you have difficulty enjoying things? Have you felt distant or cut off from people? Are you unable to have sad or loving feelings?

  • Larry: Pain lets you know you ain't dead yet.

  • Tom: What if the kids at school think I'm strange 'cause of the way we were living?

    Will: How important are their judgments?