Sam Starbuck Quotes

#1. Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.

Sam Starbuck

#2. We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just ... carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.

Sam Starbuck

#3. He was raised by wolves", she said, "wolves with pressing engineering diagrams to draw.

Sam Starbuck

#4. Do you always try to upset the world as much as possible?" Clare asked.
He gave her a surprised look. "Of course. Otherwise how does anything change?

Sam Starbuck

#5. The backfire, my dear boy, of exiling the cleverest criminals of the nation to one place and requiring them to use their ingenuity is that they will
and you can't control what they do with it.

Sam Starbuck

#6. Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they're like people. They have their own mysteries.

Sam Starbuck