Gideon Defoe

Quotes

• “If you knew how many hidden depths I had your pretty eyes would pop right out of your winsome face. Not literally of cou...”
• “The Captain was wearing his best blousey shirt, his beard was gleaming in the early morning light and he’d polished all ...”
• “In his time the Pirate Captain had made a number of dramatic entrances of his own – not always intentional it had to be ...”
• “It’s not really my fault. The problem is that my mouth just comes out with these things. And you can’t blame me for what...”
• “If the pirate with a scarf had been more poetically minded he’d have thought that her eyes were like a thousand emeralds...”
• “Just then there came the wheezy sound of an accordion. It was an odd little tune that, had he been alive exactly one hun...”
• “The Captain’s boat inspections were always pretty slapdash, because they mainly just involved him looking at the ropes a...”
• “Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know ...”
• “They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn’...”
• “That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atl...”