goldveia:

Strife is good. Strife makes a man strong. For if a man is capable of confronting death daily, functioning in the face of it, there’s no telling what else that man can do, and a man whose limits cannot be known is a very hard man to defeat in battle

Black Sails (XX.)

idontwikeit:

Because I don’t want to be a pirate. I’m not interested in the life. Not interested in the fighting, not interested in the ships. I don’t care much for the sea while we’re on the subject. But being a pirate on this crew for a little while longer, it offers me an opportunity I don’t believe I can find anywhere else on Earth… one big prize. And with it, freedom. From water, from Randall, from hunger, from wages…from you.