funny if we both got it wrong, eh?

When Captain Flint first arrived on this island, he gained influence faster than any man I’d seen before or since. I heard men say it was because of the violence. I heard them say it was his charm. But it was clear to me the reason why he was so good at bending men towards his will was he knew the power of a story and how to harness it to his own ends. That man there, I would argue, may very well be his equal.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.02 ...After The Phantoms of Your Former Self

This is how they survive. You must know this. You’re too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light - their light, their reasons, their judgements - because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn’t true. We can prove that it isn’t true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility. There is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it, and who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?

TOBY STEPHENS as James Flint in BLACK SAILS (2014—2017) Chapter V

timestamp roulette: BLACK SAILS EPISODE I ↳ friends, brothers... the prize that you and i have been pursuing is l'urca de lima. a prize of almost unimaginable value.

TOBY STEPHENS as James Flint in BLACK SAILS (2014—2017) Chapter I

TOBY STEPHENS as James Flint in BLACK SAILS (2014—2017) Chapter I

And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born?