Grave Descend Quotes

“Directly beneath him was a branch-coral formation like a giant hand reaching upward for the surface. To the left was a hole in the coral, perhaps a foot in diameter. McGregor hung in the water and waited. He did not like sticking his hands into coral pockets. At the very least, you were likely to meet up with a crab; at worst, a moray eel. He had learned long ago that in the hierarchy of things for men to fear in tropical waters, morays were the worst. Barracuda came a far second, and sharks third. The morays grew as long as ten feet, and they were vicious.”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“checked his gauge; it was twenty-five feet. His beam had still not reached the bottom. He went down, with the receiver around his neck beeping louder and louder. The ocean around him was noisy. It was something you noticed on a night dive—the sea was alive with night creatures, eating and clicking with a strange, almost mechanical sound, like a giant bank of electronic relays far off.”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“I drink only vodka,” Levett said, pouring clear liquid from a crystal decanter. “And only Russian vodka. It is by far the most healthful of liquors. Colorless and pure—do you know what goes into Scotch?” “No,” McGregor said. He was handed a glass of vodka without ice. “Fusel oil, wood extracts, formalin, a little benzene. That is what gives it its color. Bourbon is worse. Rum, though colorless, is wildly impure and exerts a dreadful effect upon the nervous system. It contains paranitrophenol. Quite nasty.”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned. —samuel johnson”
― John Lange, Grave Descend

“It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON”
― John Lange, Grave Descend