Charles Vane : For those of you who live to see tomorrow, know that you had a choice
Captain Flint: All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
Captain Flint: “When the king brands us pirates, he doesn’t mean to make us adversaries. He doesn’t mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters.”
Captain Flint: I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason, could be a bridge between us. Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.
Captain Charles Vane: You know who I am? What you cannot know, is where I come from, what I once was. If you knew that, I imagine you would’ve made different choices today.
Charles Vane : You are not a shepherd. You are a sheep
Captain Flint: Nobody will believe it’s possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they’ll say? They’ll say that it was inevitable.
Captain Flint: This is how they survive. You must know this. You’re too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows… and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn’t true. We can prove that it isn’t true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?
Captain Flint: “No matter how many lies we tell ourselves, no matter how many stories we convince ourselves we’re a part of, we’re all just thieves awaiting a noose.”
Jack Rackham : A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.
Captain Flint:
The only thing I’m ashamed of is that I didn’t do something to save him when we had the chance. That instead, I listened to you.
Vane to Albinus : “No man is rich who could make more by doing less”
Anne Bonny:
I was at every tavern in that town trying to find us spies, build out this thing we started. And every time I said my name, they knew my name. The first thing they said every time was your name. Like we was two halves of the same thing. I can’t be your wife, Jack. But you and I are gonna be partners till they put us in the f***ing ground.
Captain Flint: You’re an educated man, my lord, but I think it worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason… everyone else.
John Silver: Me, I can’t help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It’s a sickness. Truly.
Charles Vane : “You don’t give a shit about money or respect. Or the things you’ve built here. I think you’re just tired of fathers telling you what to do. And so I’m offering you a life free from them.”
Captain Flint: All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
Charles Vane : “When I take something from a man – his ship, his money, his life – I don’t hide behind a clerk. I don’t hide behind the law. I don’t hide behind anything. I look him in his eye and I give him every chance to deny me. That is legitimate.”
Captain Flint:
When the king brands us pirates, he doesn’t mean to make us adversaries. He doesn’t mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that’s the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there’s a war coming, I don’t mean with the Scarborough, I don’t mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.
Charles Vane : “There is a place not far from here where strong men live lives of pleasure, not labor, a place where you could be feared and respected once again. Follow me, and I will show you what life is.”