21 Quotes by Julia Drake

A show in progress. A story unfolding. The theater goes dark for a scene change. The orchestra, though, continues to play. A riff on the show’s dominant melody fills the house – somber or suspenseful or sweepingly romantic – and the tone of the next scene starts there, with the music.

It was the first time I’d said ‘survival’ aloud. Sam had survived. He’d survived, and I’d survived, too. Now we would survive together.

He’s not even interested in the treasure. The whole point is the adventure. At least, for his crew, that’s the point. The last true poets of the sea, he calls them. People for whom discovery – like, the concept of the journey – is the treasure itself.