“Geoffs arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S. British-Craphole.”

“May as well have ox blood running through those veins, I added, Youre as stubborn as one.”

“He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy.”

“They shot one of ours. The lines deepened around his grey eyes. Id waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crews blood.”

“Now, now. I placed a hand on his back. Jealousy colors you black, Geoff. If you wanted to be a pretty princess too, I would have bought you a crown. Ill be back soon.”

“The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of Take to the Sky, but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.”

“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the p...”

“She is mad, and I am sane. To speak to her, even the first word, would be an acknowledgement and an acceptance of her madness, and from there I would have no choice but to follow her down the hole ...”

“You must live a very free life.""Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!""Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room ...”

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me li...”

“I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. Whats the tenth thing? ...”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and ...”

“question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have t...”

“Tenacity is what it takes to dare unrelentingly”