“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.”
“You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.”
“I’ll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I’ll be the wind in its sail.”
“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
“...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
“On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)”