Author of quotes: Stuart Turton

There are no demons. But you can always make a deal.

Universal fear has advantages - no one will get to the bottom of it.

Love can not be confused with anything, because it is nothing like anything else. She does not know how to hide and pretend, it is impossible not to notice.

It is necessary to seek what is hidden, but must be visible, and what is visible, but must be hidden.

- That's what the old sailors call the soul. They believe that our sins are hidden in the depths of our souls, like sunken ships at the bottom of the sea. Dark water is a human soul, and Old Tom hides in it.

One should have foreseen that such a powerful creature would sooner or later be freed. It's always like this with demons set free. Someday they will be set on you.

Wine is like dirt. It eats into the skin and does not wash off.

Murderers cannot but kill, blackmailers cannot blackmail, and thieves cannot steal. Their hands itch. This is what destroys them.

A person can forgive anything but injustice.

Beauty is not eternal. You need to sell it more expensive in time.

Everyone believes that the ship sails by itself, there would be wind and waves. And it's not. To control a ship is to control sailors, and they are full of superstition and malice. Whether you get home depends on murderers, thieves and other scilies that are no longer suitable for anything. They're on this ship only because they would have been pulled up on land long ago. They are hot-tempered and violent in anger, and we drove them all together to a place where even cattle can not be kept. Captain Crowells controls the ship and I keep the crew from mutiny. As soon as one of us is made a loss, we are all dead. <... > Do you know why sailors hate soldiers? Because we set them up that way. Otherwise, they will realize that they really hate each other, and then we will not see home.

Everyone thinks that the ship sails by itself, if there were wind and waves. This is not the case. To steer a ship means to steer the sailors, and they are full of superstition and anger. Whether you get home depends on murderers, thieves and other scum that are no longer good for anything. They are on this ship only because on land they would have been pulled up long ago. They are hot-tempered and violent in anger, and we drove them all together to a place where even cattle cannot be kept. Captain Crowels controls the ship, and I keep the crew from mutiny. Should one of us fail, and we are all dead. ... Do you know why sailors hate soldiers? Because we set them up that way. Otherwise, they will understand that they really hate each other, and then we will not see at home.

War is glorified only by poets, so that those in power do not feel guilty in the massacre arranged with their money. And an ordinary soldier is destined to die in a foreign land for a king who would not give him even crumbs from his table.

“We're on a ship full of angry men,” Cressy snorted and looked at the others for support. - It's dangerous even without the devil. If we do nothing, we are doomed.