{"quotes":[{"text":"He pulled out handcuffs and snapped them around my wrists. 'Where's your bag? You didn't bring your staff?'I have it. It's hidden.' Charlie was currently tucked inside the leg of my Harry Potter pajama bottoms, which were beneath my jeans, but that fell under the category of TMI.","author":"Suzanne Johnson","tags":["elders","magic","new-orleans","pirates","shifters","wizards"],"id":6133,"author_id":"Suzanne+Johnson"},{"text":"...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been taken over by civilization, and there is no more room for Indians, Pirates, and Wild Boys?","author":"Christopher Daniel Mechling","tags":["change","childhood","fairy-tale","future","indians","innocence","peter-pan","peter-the-wild-boy","pirates","progressod","true-story"],"id":10004,"author_id":"Christopher+Daniel+Mechling"},{"text":"Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?'Most likely Trelawney's own men,' said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.'Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.'I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["humor","humour","pirates","pun","wit","wordplay"],"id":12726,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Because...” he used to cradle his daughter in his arms every morning and often they would exchange soft nuances “...If you can dream it, if you can see it in your visions at night, if you can feel it in your soul, it’s yours! And it never really belonged to anyone else, in the first place! It was always yours!” Viera returned her scroll to the drawer and closed it, she kissed the compass around her neck and climbed into her bed under the warm quilts, the candle flame crackled and the memories of her father’s arms around her embraced her there in bed and his deep, hoarse voice resounded in her ears; “... And if you chance upon a treasure that is yours and it happens to be in the possession of someone else, it’s not very wrong to take what is yours, to take what you dreamed, what you saw in your visions at night, what you felt visit you in your spirit! Sure, it’s not lawful, but aye aye my little one, listen to me when I tell you that the best things in life are not under the laws of any sort! For which law created love? Which law created courage? The best things, the real things, are the things that are not measured by any man’s laws! Fear is the only thing that any law has ever created! And what kind of pirates would we all be if we were afraid of any of our fears, even a little!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["courage","fears","freedom","inspirational","legendary-pirates","pirates","tales-of-a-pirate-s-daughter","thomas-tew","unpublished-novel-by-c-joybell-c"],"id":14645,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Well what would you expect?' she sputtered. 'They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.","author":"Jason Fry","tags":["middle-grade","pirates","science-fiction","space"],"id":14979,"author_id":"Jason+Fry"},{"text":"The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the black flag of piracy--flying from her peak.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["adventure","pirates"],"id":20050,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"You—“ Mr Bellstrode began, and then leaning forward and sinking his voice, “You would kill for money?”“Is there any other reason to? Well, I suppose there is revenge, but that, you know, never makes one feel as well as it should when it is all said and done. Money is a much better reward than retribution. Something substantial by way of compensation for emotional wrongs is much the best cure for an injured spirit. I do provide fatal retaliation for nothing when it is deserved, but as you are neither a poor helpless wretch nor the victim of national injustice, full payment is expected.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["assassination","humour","mercenaries","murder","pirates"],"id":23666,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"I've never had a problem with a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to ask for it.'\tEven as her heart stuttered, she narrowed her eyes. 'Is that supposed to be a come-on?'\tHe lifted his hands and donned an innocent expression. 'Wouldn't think of it.","author":"Julie Ann Walker","tags":["pirates","romantic-suspense"],"id":23776,"author_id":"Julie+Ann+Walker"},{"text":"If you could see your whole life laid out before you, there’d be no reason to live it, right?","author":"Lisa Kessler","tags":["contemporary-romance","pirates","prophecy","savannah"],"id":32190,"author_id":"Lisa+Kessler"},{"text":"He’s going to kill me,” Peppone murmured, his jaw drooping, “or at least send out the order to have someone take care of me. Well,” with a sigh, “might as well get rid of this body before the others wake up.” He canted his head and mused to himself. “Maybe I should carve it up first.”\t“At long last,” Bartleby cried, raising his eyes and wringing his hands, “somebody who has no regard for collective conscience and general morality. Oh, happy, happy morning!”\t“Take care, Peppone,” Danaco laughed, “if you have so little regard for life and the creatural condition, Bartleby will attach himself to you and never leave you for a moment.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["humour","life","pirates","science"],"id":34148,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":140,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}