# Quote — Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities

> No one had ever come for him... not his mom, not his dad, not his brother, not a dozen people who he'd called his friends back in his town on the coast, not a one of them had ever come looking for him, trying to get him back. They'd just let him go. That was the difference. But this castoff cripple-hand civvy girl had come all the way in. Ocho scowled down at her limp body. See what loyalty gets you? See?

- Author: [Paolo Bacigalupi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi.md)
- Book: [The Drowned Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-drowned-cities.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paolo_Bacigalupi#The_Drowned_Cities_(2012)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-drowned-cities/no-one-had