When a man is being fucked, he wants to know whose cock was in him.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
I've spent my life trying to build something here. It's all I have. I can't walk away.
This place is just sand. It cannot love you back.
Fuck the captains and fuck anyone else who doesn't like the way I manage this place.
[to Gates] As quartermasters, we serve our men best when we rise above the fray and see the truth from an unobstructed vantage.
HHornigold
The last I heard, James fled to France. They call him the Pretender now. I promised my men that if they stayed with me, they'd be soldiers again, that they'd be part of a rebel navy fighting a war to restore a rightful king. Now... who knows what they'll do? They're coming to terms with a very uncomfortable truth. That no matter how many lies we tell ourselves, or no matter how many stories we convince ourselves we're part of, we're all just thieves awaiting a noose.
[to Flint] That was my fault. Entirely my fault. I should've been clearer when I prepared you for this meeting. When I said we would need to keep our tempers in check if we were going to make this meeting happen, I should've specified that we'd need to do so for the duration of the meeting as well. Not to worry. A simple setback. Now we have clarity and a unity of vision. I feel good.
[to Eleanor] Be honest: are you as surprised as I am that I'm the only one behaving myself?
Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.
True love shouldn't require suffering.
I feel compelled to state out loud: life is simply too fucking short.
[to Idelle, about Eleanor] You hate her. I hate her. We all hate her. Look what good it's done us. No captain on this island's ever known that kind of power. Power that doesn't care how many votes you can tally, who loves you, who hates you, who fears you. Power that just is. Truth is, none of us have any right to hate her for it. She's strong and we're weak. That's the reality of things here. And no one down there is strong enough to change anything.
There's always doubt. No sane man would deny that. No good captain would acknowledge it.
This crew needs certainty, and I need their support to achieve an end which is in all our best interests. So we dance the dance. Never was there a Caesar who couldn't sing the tune.
You all heard my father this morning, that the Guthrie trading operation in Nassau is dead. To that I have this to add: fuck him and fuck that.
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