Sea Change Quotes

“Sometimes she felt much like a natural philosopher watching exotic animals in their native habitat. What she had always suspected was confirmed by life aboard the Fancy--men were simple creatures with uncomplicated brains. They wanted food, and drink, and fighting, and sexual congress. They were impressed with their own body's ability to make noise and odor. Their idea of humor was at best crude, at worst painful, yet even after some of the bizarre practical jokes that brought men to her sick bay they were still laughing and bragging about whatever insane thing they'd done that got them in that condition.”
― Marshall Darlene, Sea Change

“It really was not fair. Someone that handsome should have some noticeable flaws--flatulence or rotting teeth or an annoying laugh. The damned pirate even had dimples.”
― Marshall Darlene, Sea Change

“Every day I was gone from you, I felt like my heart was at the bottom of the ocean with my ship. If you tell me you do not want to go to sea, then...I will find something else to do. But whatever I make of my life, I cannot do it without you, my dearest heart. I love you so much. You are the greatest treasure I ever stole.”
― Darlene Marshall, Sea Change

“You are not pretty. Pretty is a china figurine on a shelf. Pretty fades and cracks and withers away. You are beautiful, Charley Alcott. Your beauty flows out from you like honey from a comb, every time you comfort a wounded man, every time you heal a pain. You are beautiful here," he kissed her forehead, "and here," he said, kissing her graceful neck, "and especially inside here," he finished, putting his hand on her breastbone. "You will always be beautiful, Charley, when pretty is only a memory, you will be beautiful because of who you are.”
― Darlene Marshall, Sea Change