The Shipkiller Quotes

“You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died.

(In "The Nautical Chart" by Arturo Perez-Reverte)”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“We are a legitimate nation and legitimate nations do not underwrite piracy on the high seas.”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“Upper quadrant. Twelve o’clock. A bright-green light. A wave? A glitch? It faded. But when the bow rose it blossomed again. Hardin stared—his excitement mounting—gauging its intensity, willing it not to be a wave, gradually realizing that a wave couldn’t last so long,”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“eleven degrees fifteen minutes and ten seconds east, and thirty degrees, twenty-nine minutes south”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“I like things clear. That’s why I like sailing. What the ocean wants, the ocean gets. And if you feel the need to be absolutely right about something, you can polish your navigation. You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it’ll still kill you; but if you’re a good navigator, at least you’ll know where you were when you died.”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“To land. May it fall where it ought.”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“Or he might be a free lance representing IRA provisionals, or the German Red Army, or Italian Red Brigade, or Palestinians.”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“Whenever it served the Mossad,”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“The law is largely an orderly process of redress.”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“She looked out at the sea, then behind them. Her body went rigid in his arms. “Oh, my God!” Hardin turned and stared. A black steel wall filled the horizon.”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller

“The number of ships that lie on the seabed since time beginning is in the millions.”
― Justin Scott, The Shipkiller