16. März 1968

Henry DeTamble

wird an diesem Tag geboren. An seinem 5. Geburtstag erlebt er seine allererste Zeitreise, bei der ihm ein älterer Henry aus der Zukunft behilflich ist.

(Audrey Niffenegger, "The Time Traveller's Wife", 2003)

13. Juni 195*

Myrtle, die Hogwartsschülerin

kommt ums Leben, als die geheimnisvolle Kammer des Schreckens geöffnet wird. Ihr Geist bleibt als "Moaning Myrtle" in der Schule.

(Joanna K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", 1998)

10. Juni 1939

John Bone

der auf das britische Königspaar angesetzte Attentäter wird von der Journalistin und Amateuragentin Jane Todd erschossen - bevor er sie umbringen kann.

(Christopher Hyde, "The Second Assassin", 2002)

Jack Sparrow: He needs the Pearl. Captain Turner needs the Pearl, [to Elizabeth] and you felt guilty,
[to Barbossa] And you and your Brethren Court.
[to everyone] Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?
.
Jack Sparrow: She's a woman scorned, the fury the like of which hell hath no.
.
Captain Vallenueva: [about Barbossa] Shoot him!
Captain Jocard: Cut out his tongue!
Jack Sparrow: Shoot him, cut out his tongue and shoot his tongue... and maybe trim that straggly beard of his.
.
Jack Sparrow: Cuttlefish... eh... let us not,dear friends,forget our dear friends the cuttlefish... bind them up together and they'll devour themselves without a single thought... Human nature,in'it? Ooor... rather fish nature... So yes... we could hold up here well-provisioned and well-armed... and half of us would be dead within the month!
.
Gibbs: Jack! The world needs you back something fierce!
Will Turner: Cutler Beckett has the heart of Davy Jones, he controls the Flying Dutchman.
Elizabeth Swann: He's taking over the sea!
Jack Sparrow: I leave you people alone for just a minute look what happens, everything's gone apart!
.
Barbossa: Now we're good and lost.
Elizabeth Swann: Lost?
Barbossa: Yes, you have to be lost to find that which no one knows where it is, elseways everyone would know where it was.
.
Will Turner: Will you marry me?
Elizabeth Swann: I don't think now's the best time!
Will Turner: Now may be the only time! I love you. I've made my choice. What's yours?
Elizabeth Swann: Barbossa! Barbossa, marry us!
Barbossa: I'm a little busy!
.
Captain Teague: It's not living forever that's the problem, Jacky. It's living with yourself - forever.
.
Lord Cutler Beckett: [referring to Jack about to use a cannon to escape] You're mad.
Jack Sparrow: Well thank goodness for that, 'cause if I wasn't this would probably never work.
.
Jack Sparrow: [reading off a map] "Up is down"? Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful.
.
Ragetti: [of Davy Jones] So he wasn't always so... tentacley?
.
Jack Sparrow: I don't have the face for tentacles.
.
Jack Sparrow: Close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream. That's how I get by.
Barbossa: There's not been a gatherin' like this in our lifetime.
Jack Sparrow: And I owe them all money.
.
Elizabeth Swann: Jack, it would never have worked out between us.
Jack Sparrow: Keep telling yourself that, darling.
.
Jack Sparrow: Permit me to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket.
.
Davy Jones: Do you fear death?
Jack Sparrow: You have no idea.

1. Juni 1865

Ludwig "Ludo" Spiegl

wird an diesem Tag geboren. Mit 11 Jahren begleitet er sein altes Pferd auf seiner seltsamen und gefährlichen Reise durch die Häuser des Zodiak.

(Mary Stewart, "Ludo and the Star Horse", 1974)