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Stephen Crane

The Open Boat and Other Stories

  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    The gulls went in slanting flight up the wind toward the grey desolate east. A squall, marked by dingy clouds, and clouds brick-red, like smoke from a burning building, appeared from the south-east.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    she has decided to drown me, why did she not do it in the beginning and save me all this trouble? The whole affair is absurd.... But no, she cannot mean to drown me. She dare not drown me. She cannot drown me. Not after all this work."
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    To their sharpened minds it was easy to conjure pictures of all kinds of incompetency and blindness and, indeed, cowardice. There was the shore of the populous land, and it was bitter and bitter to them that from it came no sign.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and even a genius of mental aberrations could never conclude that it was anything but a horror to the muscles and a crime against the back.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    no one said that it was so. No one mentioned it.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    t would be difficult to describe the subtle brotherhood of men that was here established on the seas. No one said that it was so. No one mentioned it. But it dwelt in the boat, and each man felt it warm him.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    y the very last star of truth, it is easier to steal eggs from under a hen than it was to change seats in the dingey.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    To express any particular optimism at this time they felt to be childish and stupid, but they all doubtless possessed this sense of the situation in their mind. A young man thinks doggedly at such times. On the other hand, the ethics of their condition was decidedly against any open suggestion of hopelessness. So they were silent.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    Then the captain, in the bow, chuckled in a way that expressed humour, contempt, tragedy, all in one. "Do you think we've got much of a show now, boys?" said he.
  • ksenia lundhas quoted3 years ago
    In the wan light, the faces of the men must have been grey. Their eyes must have glinted in strange ways as
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