We Are Pirates
Daniel Handler
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.”
“He who wants the world must first escape from it.”
“Treat reluctance like seasickness," Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. "If you feel it, focus on the horizon.”
“Phil Needle supposed what he meant was that he wanted to be God, just long enough to find his daughter. It was not a prayer but a promotion. This was why nobody liked God: they wanted his job.”
“It's okay to like jerks. I mean, it'd be better to like a nice guy, but there aren't any.”
“When you're at sea," Gwen would probably reply, "it's not food. It's fuel, for further exploits." "So the exploit fuels the next exploit, and the next the next, and so on? Is there nothing more, nothing else?" "Is there ever?”
“One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them.”
“It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth. For a boy, people would say to her soon, in disbelief or even in admiration, and they would be all wrong.”
“He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud.”
“Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.”
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Book Keywords:
teenage-romance, inspirational, lost, insightful, humor, sarcasm-humor, connections
