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Across a Moonlit Sea QUOTES

Across a Moonlit Sea QUOTES

1 " God deliver me from the sin o’ fornication,” Spence gasped, clutching at the sheets of blood that poured from the deep gash in his head. “Have the bastards killed me? "

― Marsha Canham , Across a Moonlit Sea

2 " This is war, despite what Drake or the Queen prefers to call it, and I want you safe, Isabeau. I want you home in England, safe. "

― Marsha Canham , Across a Moonlit Sea

3 " Because I did not think it was possible,” he said finally, “to feel anything but hatred anymore. It was all I was when I came on board this ship: hatred and revenge. It was pure and undiluted and so strong, I did not think anything that was soft or beautiful could find its way inside me again. Then tonight”—he paused to take a breath—“when I saw Bloodstone, the desire, the need, was still there to kill him … but so was the need to come back here, to feel your arms go around me and your body take me where it’s soft, and beautiful”—he looked at her squared shoulders and the small white fists clenched by her sides, and his voice fell to a whisper—“and safe. And if I don’t know how to say the right words anymore it’s because—it’s because I never thought I would want to say them again. "

― Marsha Canham , Across a Moonlit Sea

4 " Dante caught the look in Pitt’s eyes. “Don’t say it.”

“Not a word. Not about the helmsman or the guns you left behind.”

“She’s still a woman, dammit,” Dante hissed.

“It doesn’t seem to bother her. Why does it bother you? "

― Marsha Canham , Across a Moonlit Sea

5 " windage. "

― Marsha Canham , Across a Moonlit Sea

6 " Dante leaned his shoulder on the wall and briefly watched the solid tattoo of rain on the gallery windows. His charming little black swan would not be thrilled at all with the notion of being summarily dismissed, regardless whether it was couched in friendly terms or not. An image of Beau standing on the afterdeck of the Egret, her eyes streaming from the clouds of smoke that rose from the guns, her hands raw and bleeding, her face pale with fear, came to his mind and he knew he would have to find his own way of softening the blow to her pride. He meant what he had said. He wanted her safe in England.

He wanted someone to go home to. "

― Marsha Canham , Across a Moonlit Sea