“Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
“love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it’s dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, everchanging.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
“But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.”
― The Orange Girl
― The Orange Girl
“Godrot opium, he thought. But he knew that his life was inexorably tied to opium—and that without it neither The Noble House nor the British Empire could exist.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan
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