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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Rafael Sabatini
    “Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...”
    Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood
    tags: gold

  • #4
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “-I am not sure whether he's sane.
    -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

  • #5
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

  • #6
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

  • #7
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;”
    Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #10
    Billie-Jo Williams
    “Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.”
    Billie-Jo Williams

  • #11
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I took a breath. “Your highness—”
    “Nikolai,” he corrected. “But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #12
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “If fate doesn't give us the chance, we steal it.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

  • #14
    “Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours. I will be it.”
    Captain Flint

  • #15
    Matt Tomerlin
    “A man never spoke ill of his captain, pirate or no, unless he was prepared to back his words with the might of the crew.”
    Matt Tomerlin, The Devil's Fire

  • #16
    Matt Myklusch
    “It took a special kind of madness to try to be a pirate and a good man at the same time.”
    Matt Myklusch, The Lost Prince

  • #17
    Lloyd Alexander
    “A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.

    Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

    “Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm



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