Calico Jack

Season 3, Episode 4  ~ XXII

F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Beautiful and Damned (via bnmxfld)

“Had I done more in that moment, had I been more in that moment Charles would still be here.”

A state of multiplying questions.  I suppose that makes two of us.

“You people, incapable of accepting the world as it is,” says the man to whom the world handed everything.

The idea that he might be looking down on me in this moment and find me not doing everything in my power to see his death answered for, that is something I’m willing to put my life at risk over, how I’m seen in his eyes.

And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It’s found truth in its maturity, which if a virtue in man ought to be no less so for the things men create…Long John Silver’s story is a hard one to know. The men who believed most deeply in it were ultimately destroyed by it. And those who stood to benefit most from it were the most eager to leave it all behind. Until all that remains of any of it are stories bearing only a passing resemblance to the world the rest of us lived in. A world we survived. A world that is no more.

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You people.

What’s it all for if it goes unremembered? It’s the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.

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Vampirates

You don’t think I can convey a thought to Anne comprehensible only to her, a thought as simple as “run”? A letter that said everything the governor wished it to say in exactly the way he’d want to say it would not sound like anything I’d ever say. A thought here or there between the lines - I assure you, she understood.

black sails meme: [2/5 characters] “you people, incapable of accepting the world as it is,” says the man to whom the world handed everything. if no anne, if no rescue, if this is defeat for me, then know this - you and i were neck and neck in this race right till the end, but jesus, did i make up a lot of ground to catch you.

pirate fashion: jack rackham edition 

We all have the same swords out there. We all have the same guns. But great art has felled empires, and therein lies all the difference. Jack Rackham, Black Sails (Season 2)

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