When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down