{"quotes":[{"text":"Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between two warehouses, Jed could just make out the Witch's Fingers, four long talons of sand that lay in the mouth of the river. Rumour had it that, on stormy nights a century ago, they used to reach out, gouge holes in passing ships, and drag them down. Hundreds of wrecks lay buried in that glistening silt. The city's black heart had beaten strongly even then. There was one funeral director, supposedly, who used to put lamps out on the Fingers and lure ships to their doom.","author":"Rupert Thomson","tags":["city","doomeded","lamps","ship","witch-s-fingers","wrecks"],"id":755,"author_id":"Rupert+Thomson"},{"text":"What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.","author":"Saim .A. Cheeda","tags":["aimless","alone","band","boat","brothers","camaraderie","companionship","drifting","friendship","fulfillment","gratifying","happiness","life","lost","merry","sail","sea","setting-sail","ship"],"id":10039,"author_id":"Saim+.A.+Cheeda"},{"text":"Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to come made him regret his departure less, but even so, he stood at the rail as the ship departed into the night waters.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["adventure","magnus-bane","ship"],"id":17953,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"There will always be rough days and easy ones. Like a ship, we must sail through both.","author":"Nabil N. Jamal","tags":["always","both","days","easy","jamal","nabil","nabil-jamal","nabil-n-jamal","patience","perseverance","rough","sail","ship","success","survive"],"id":19140,"author_id":"Nabil+N.+Jamal"},{"text":"I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.","author":"Nathan Fillion","tags":["ship","movies","guns "],"id":20285,"author_id":"Nathan+Fillion"},{"text":"And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["bum-rag","fire","humor","mistakes","ship"],"id":22955,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.","author":"Avi","tags":["inspirational","life","sailor","ship","wind"],"id":40576,"author_id":"Avi"},{"text":"He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a vast ship, sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another, the woman is sleeping only a few yards away from him and he cannot reach her, yet it's so very easy to go from port to starboard.","author":"José Saramago","tags":["island","reach","sea","ship","sleep"],"id":45193,"author_id":"Jos%C3%A9+Saramago"},{"text":"You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... Do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.","author":"Henry Louis Gates","tags":["tree","roots","ship "],"id":48378,"author_id":"Henry+Louis+Gates"},{"text":"She can push me away all she wants, she can burn me with those eyes, but right now, I’m not going anywhere.","author":"Samantha Armstrong","tags":["cute","love","relationship","romance","samantha-armstrong","ship","stolen-songs"],"id":53531,"author_id":"Samantha+Armstrong"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":108,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}