“We could build a boat, you and I, and sail to the moon and back.”
“Joan Baxter (Lauren Graham): “You want to build a boat?”Evan Baxter: “It might be something fun for the family. Go sailing on the lake. I don’t know. [looking at his feet, under his breath] Be great in case it floods or something…”
“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”
“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.”
“It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.”
“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.”