The Mad Ship, Flights

More thinking.

'Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination,' the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, 'Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.'

The Mad Ship, Surviving

"A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking."

Belated note. Guess I found it important, and thought provoking.

The Mad Ship, The Calm

The panic had passed, and she had been able to join the party, pleading a morning headache as excuse for her absence. Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.


I've found it to be both.

The Mad Ship, Taking Charge

When a character (and a writer) makes you stop and think.

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It is not enough to refrain from evil [...]. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.