Pirates Quotes

“Fate was a damn bitch, waiting until he had something worth living for before making death an option again.”
― Lisa Kessler, Pirate's Passion

“Char chuckled. “If I didn’t know better, I might think you wanted my judgment to be impaired. I told you rum was my weakness in confidence.”

“In my defense”—he leaned in closer, his voice for her alone—“I am a pirate.”
― Lisa Kessler, Pirate's Passion

“I wasn’t ready to tell you goodbye yet.”

He scanned her face as the silence embraced them, words he was terrified to speak aloud echoed through his mind.

He might never be ready to hear her say goodbye.”
― Lisa Kessler, Pirate's Passion

“Keegan chuckled. “I think they mean to kill me.”

“So, they don’t know…”

“Aye.” Keegan nodded. “Appears the serpents don’t know those kids stole the grail from a band of immortal pirates.”
― Lisa Kessler, Pirate's Passion

“No one in her life had ever loved her so honestly.
And this was not going to be the end of her story. Not today.”
― Lisa Kessler, Pirate's Passion

“There are only two indisputable facts in this world: One, that the sun will set in the west. And two, that I'll come for you. Always.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo

“The trouble is that for too long, business has been run by the wrong sort of pirates”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

“All that is or ever was good in me begins and ends with you. Every time I said you were mine, I meant that I was yours. Always. Always.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo

“In a world without gold, we might've been Heroes!”
― Oliver Bowden, Black Flag

“Within the history of lesbianism from the archaic Greek poet Sappho from the Isle of Lesbos, who is the symbol of lust, passion and sensuality between women, to Sister Benedetta Carlini’s deeply erotic love affair with another nun, to the 10th century Arab erotic work, Encyclopedia of Pleasure, which gives the account of a love affair between a Christian and an Arab woman, to modern day same-sex marriages and Pride parades, there is certainly place for Anne Bonny and Mary Read.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Pirates are humans. Just misunderstood humans.”
― Kyleigh Williamson, Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers

“What made you offer up your services as a pirate, Lord Kitson? This life's not like it is in songs, you know. There's a little more shit and scurvy.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“He was a living, breathing sin.
In her bedroom.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo

“Lorraine insisted on cooking us something to eat, so while she got on with that we found an old cement bucket and made a big bowl of punch.
Blackbeard the pirate used to drink rum and gunpowder, as did most of his men, so we figured a little bit of cement in the punch wouldn’t hurt us. Probably take some of the sweetness away.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Remember we are Pirates.
We never compromise.
When there is no way, there is trust and persistence.”
― Isbelle Razors, Reflective Dogma

“What kind of pirate would I be if I can’t handle a little danger?”
― Lisa Kessler, Pirate's Passion

“One story clearly illustrates Anne Bonny's particular mix of comedy and ingenuity. She'd heard of a French Merchantman, loaded down with silks and satins, and decided to attack it. Her plan was quite nuts. She got the crew to smear the sails and the deck of the ship with turtle blood, covered most of the crew with the same blood, dressed one of Bouspeut’s dressmaker dummies in women’s clothing and stood it in the bow of the ship, likewise splashed with blood, and positioned the crew around it like corpses.
She then lobbed her tits out and, brandishing a blood-soaked boarding axe, stood quite still over this horrific scene as they sailed out to meet the Merchantman.
Sailors are profoundly superstitious and once the Frenchmen caught sight of this demonic ship with the bare-breasted maniac lit by a raging moon, the Frenchmen were so repelled that they gave up without a fight.
What theatre!”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Some days, the sheer amount of enemies we attracted made me question if maybe our crew was a little too trigger happy. That maybe we’d pissed in too many pots without thinking of the consequences.

But then I remembered most folks couldn’t hold to a basic code of honor if it killed them. And kill them we did.

Repeatedly.”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“I lifted a brow. “You’re not going to try to blow up our ship, are you?”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“A moving object will continue in a straight line unless something happens to knock it off its course. Some say this is also true of stories. (From Aldebran Boswell's Book of Scientific Knowledge)”
― Claire Fayers, The Voyage to Magical North

“Imagine the stories if we succeed.”
― Claire Fayers, The Voyage to Magical North

“Within a few generations, the Chinese allowed their naval and merchant fleets to wither; in 1500, an imperial edict made the construction of vessels with more than two masts a capital offense. In 1525, another decree forbade the building of any oceangoing vessel. Where navies are absent, pirates pillage. By the middle of the sixteenth century, Japanese wako marauders so terrorized China's coastline that to this day women in Fujian province hide their faces with blue scarves originally designed to shield the wearer from the lecherous gaze of foreign bandits”
― William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

“Ella llegó para mandar al diablo códigos y leyes piratas impuestas por los que consideraba “machistas”
― Itxamany Bustillo, La Emperatriz

“Había sido un buen marinero desde muy joven pero la irreverencia la llevaba en la sangre así como la vida libertina y el deseo de llenarla de aventuras. El mar era su pasión pero más lo era esa mujer (...)”
― Itxamany Bustillo, La Emperatriz

“Come back to me safe, Kate," Grace said, whispering, because her throat had closed and her own tears were falling. She had so much to tell Kate, so much more advice to give, but there wasn't time, because the tide was turning and David was no doubt waiting at the pier. But she had time for one last piece of advice. One last, desperate plea. "And for God's sake, don't fall in love with your captain.”
― Carrie Vaughn, Fast Ships, Black Sails

“I like your pluck, but I'd hate to see you swinging from a gibbet because of it.”
― Meg Caddy, Devil's Ballast

“Xen Ptera was dying. Queen Nor Solis had known it for years, had witnessed her planet's pain with her own eyes -but knowing the truth didn't make facing it any easier. For years, she'd known it coming.”
― Sasha Alsberg , Zenith

“When you bring the galaxy to its knees, you can paint the entire palace in blood, if you wish it." Nor closed her eyes and smiled. She could see it, taste it. And it pleased her.”
― Lindsay Cummings, Zenith

“Dex was suddenly, fiercely glad Andi's crew had stayed to fight, despite his attempts to make them leave. These women had the power to bring the world to its knees, yet here they were, saving it.”
― Lindsay Cummings, Nexus

“No, Valen thought. Where was his power? How had it been crushed so quickly, so easily?”
― Lindsay Cummings, Nexus