The Privateer Quotes

“He humped the sack over his shoulder and went on up the path. And Henry, picking up his much smaller bundle, forbore to offer to carry the larger one. To be no longer young, with all the world in front of you, must be bad enough, without having it brought forcibly to your notice.”
― Josephine Tey, The Privateer

“The sullen late-July days would break suddenly into shrieking tempest, in the black heart of which they would struggle with halliards that seemed to have an evil and furious life of their own; or they would be beaten to the deck by a solid weight of rain that was like the emptying of buckets. It was not rain at all, as the term is understood. The skies just turned to water and fell down.”
― Josephine Tey, The Privateer

“Here it comes,’ Morris said, his eyes on the nine gun-mouths studding the Seville’s starboard side. ‘Dear sweet Christ, I wish I had lived a better life...”
― Gordon Daviot (Elizabeth MacKintosh)