A Burial at Sea Quotes

“...men lived and died all the time by the peculiarities of their soul, which they could never expect one another to understand.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“dangerous man. I have seen it before.” Lenox coughed then, and his lungs and throat burned, but he went on. “Capable of maintaining a professional life and obeying a private devil simultaneously.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“Lenox poured another glass of water, and realized, as he took a deep breath, what a thrill was running through him. He had finally found his old form. It had come too late to save Martin, but there might be justice. That was something.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“If we are to catch him out, it will take tremendous craft on our parts, Mr. Billings. I don’t want you flying off half-cocked and confronting him on your own. I suggest we congregate tomorrow morning at ten o’clock. Then you will know.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“A captain murdered on his own vessel,” said Tradescant, shaking his head. “It’s hard to know what to believe in.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“How did these men tolerate lives at sea, always abroad, always a thousand miles from home! But then, perhaps they weren’t as happy by their hearths as he was by his.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“Nevertheless, it would appear that one of your number, I doubt more than one, is unhappy. This person is a cancer within us, which I plan to excise as surely as Mr. Tradescant would excise a tumor from any of”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“No, of course not. But the officers are also private, insular. I doubt they will have expressed their anxieties or their grief to you.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“But what if all that counted for nothing, and it was some madman from below deck who had killed Halifax and now was trying to mount a mutiny?”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“stood. “This trip has been a curse. Shot rolled aboard my Lucy! Never once did it happen in the Indias, and now we’re four days from Plymouth Harbor and it does. Well, I must be on deck.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“Of course!” said Lenox. “An officer is murdered and mutiny against the officers of the middle watch—they may well be linked, yes.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“The definite clues he had—the penknife, the medallion, the strange nature of Halifax’s wounds—seemed to point in every different direction.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“Lieutenant Carrow has always struck me as a cold fish. An able officer, exceedingly able, but not endowed too plentifully with warmth or happiness.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“On shore they would have had six weeks to do the job. The ship is in effect a closed room. Impossible to flee, should you be discovered. It’s peculiar, I’ll say that. Did you take many new men on board for this voyage? Someone who might be violent?”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“He perceived that it would be dangerous to offer his nephew any sort of aid or comfort that might interfere with his progress on the ship, however kindly intended it might be.”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea

“sunfall”
― Charles Finch, A Burial at Sea