“I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.”
“For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men.”
“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.”
“Boys are universal giver, women remains universal receiver.”
“Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the long boat with the shoulder of mutton sail, with which I sailed above a thousand miles on the coast of Africk; but this was in vain.”
“Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.''Ship.''Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.”