Tag: james flint

idontwikeit:

James Flint Appreciation Week: Tuesday – Most Memorable/Favourite Quote

You must know this. You’re too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn’t true. We can prove that it isn’t true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom.

oscarspoe:

There’s always doubt, Billy. 

No sane man would deny that. 

No good captain would acknowledge it.

Take our present route, for instance.

We tacked north by northeast, along Andromache’s best point of sail.

If you’re Bryson, that’s the smart course.

Well, he knows that I know that.

So wouldn’t he have at least considered heading northwest to follow the coast, lose us in the dark?

Or due east on the chance that we might sail right past him?

There must be at least one chance in three that that horizon will remain bare and we’ll never see the Andromache again.

That’s the truth.

But what good would that knowledge do for any man on this crew trying to focus on doing his job?

kiwimidnight:

“ Thomas Hamilton was there.
  [Flint] disbelieved me. He continued to resist. And corralling him took great effort.
  But the closer we got to Savannah, his resistance began to diminish.
  Perhaps he’d finally reached the limits of his physical ability to fight.
  Or perhaps as the promise of seeing Thomas got closer…
  he grew more comfortable letting go of this man he created in response to his loss. ”