#blacksailsrewatch

XXXVIII. A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to be believe... those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.

XXIX. That'd make a lot more sense if I didn't need him just as badly as he needs me.

XXXVI. What if the result of this war isn't beyond the horror? What if it is the horror itself?

XXXIII. So many goddamn men here. Too many goddamned men here.

XXXVII. I have earned his trust. I have his true friendship, so he is going to have mine. And as long as that is true, I cannot imagine what is possible.

XXXII. It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another.

XXXV. When you and I are of the same mind, there is nothing we have not yet been able to do. I believe that. I trust it. Do you?

XXXIV. You know, there was a time... not so long ago, when you shared their concern. When you saw what I saw. The benefits of being free of British rule. To make the new world something more than just an extension of the old. Is it so unthinkable that that might be again? You were a pirate once.