Helen Susan Swift > Quotes

“The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage

“I laughed with the sheer joy of controlling this beautiful creation, and I did not mind that there came an echoing laugh from somewhere just outside my awareness. For once that woman was no threat but a partner and I allowed her a share in my pleasure. I did not know, yet, just how dangerous she was.”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage

“Please, God that I did not do the things I may have done, or see the things I believe I saw.”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Mountain

“Martin chuckled and strummed a small harp.”
― Helen Susan Swift, Guardian of the Dark Slap

“There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea. Attributed”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage

“He who would keep himself busy, let him equip himself with these two; a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business once you start to fit them out, nor are these two ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them. Titus Maccius Plautus, 254-184 BC”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage

“29 August 1874 This morning before breakfast I went away with the second mate, bear shooting; we shot three… we were away from the ship forty minutes only. Thomas T Macklin, Journal of a Voyage to Davis Strait aboard SS Narwhal 1874 'Sweet Christ and all his angels!”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage

“Don't panic!' Lauren strove to remember all the swimming lessons she had learned as a child,”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage