“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”
“But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.”
“Fate wouldn't create a man that drop-dead gorgeous and make him gay, would it? Oh yes, fate would.”
“The sea pokes the horizon like the tongue of a parched man, blue corroded by salt.”
“...a sea to intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire...”
“He who is less than just is less than man.”