Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania Quotes
It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
New York's perennial attraction was shopping.
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.
During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.
My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.