Airship Quotes

“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.”
― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

“Rare stories traveled of those who rose too high, the ships who sailed like Icarus towards the sun.

And like him, they crashed and burned for their arrogance.”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to stop diving.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“All right boys, let’s sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!”
― Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire

“He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my
side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy.”
― Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire

“A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matters of such grave importance that minor issues like food for the mortals in his command were entirely beneath him.
"I'll get someone else to take this duty, sir," Creedy said stoutly.
"The nonessential personnel are already on leave, XO," Grimm replied. "All the remaining hands are fully engaged in installing the new systems and making repairs. You know that."
"But, sir," Creedy said. "What will the crew say?"
"What they won't say, Byron, is anything like 'my captain allowed me to go hungry while demanding that I work without cease,'" Grimm said.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“You must live a very free life."

"Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!"

"Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head."

De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere.”
― Sam Starbuck, The Dead Isle

“The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of “Take to the Sky,” but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.”
― Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire

“Some days, the sheer amount of enemies we attracted made me question if maybe our crew was a little too trigger happy. That maybe we’d pissed in too many pots without thinking of the consequences.

But then I remembered most folks couldn’t hold to a basic code of honor if it killed them. And kill them we did.

Repeatedly.”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“I lifted a brow. “You’re not going to try to blow up our ship, are you?”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“That's not a very manly way of doing it!" Courage began. "No one gets punched, kicked, stabbed or bit?"
Raphael folded his arms. "Nope!"
Courage furrowed his brow. "Can't I at least call someone a bad name?"
Raphael stared at him for a moment, then blinked. "No!”
― Michael E. Coones, Commander Courage: and the Lost Planet Airmen

“So this is how the merchant ship won’t follow us,” I mumbled, “They aren’t insane enough to join the party.”
― Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire

“What I wouldn’t give for a little old smuggling job.”
― Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire

“She is mad, and I am sane. To speak to her, even the first word, would be an acknowledgement and an acceptance of her madness, and from there I would have no choice but to follow her down the hole until both of us would be here alone in this ship among the clouds, endlessly circling the earth, our needs carefully ministered to by mechanical men, howling ourselves hoarse and counting off the ticks of the clock before the moon falls out of the sky.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“The way he spoke to me, the admiration in his gaze, reminded me so, so much of myself staring at Morris, eyes reaching for the stars.”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises