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It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn’t be fun.
— Robert Penn, It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
With my heart thumping, I froze up. I didn't dance. I was born with two left feet and they only worked together in the saddle. "Come on," Casey urged and grabbed my hand. "I wore my steel-toe boots. You can stand on my feet for all I care.
— Brittney Joy, Showdown
The journey Is No Fun, If You Know Where your Going.
— Shokugeki No Soma
Love and adventure are life's condiments.
— David J. Forsyth, Too Cold for Mermaids
If I live...I will live unafraid...I will live so all can see,I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!"-The Great Mephisto
— Daniel Von der Ahe, The Fantastic Strange
Adventure is found not in a fair wind, but rather in a raging tempest.
— David J. Forsyth
We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!
— P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Comes Back
An adventure is nothing but a story. After the adventure ends, it’s nothing but a memory; a shadow of a life you lived. People will envy you for the time it takes you to tell the story. But after that, what then? I think people admire you more for becoming a teacher. I really do.
— Alex Z. Moores, Living in Water
Well, bugger me," cried Jonas when he saw Richie with his bow, "is it Robin Hood or Adam Bell come to save us? Nay, it's Richie O'the Bow, hero of ballad and song!
— David Pilling, Reiver
An eerie, chilling voice interrupted him to reverberate through the house. “You believe you are safe, but you will never be safe from me. My reach is limitless, my capabilities legion. Sleep fitfully and avoid the shadows, for know that I am coming for you. When I arrive, you will pay for what you did.
— G.S. Jennsen, Relativity
Wilbur looked at the list glumly. "Are you sure you need all this stuff?""Yep.""The ax?""The ax is critical.""The c
— Ursula Vernon, Ratpunzel
Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed and the shining shieldSuspended in the hall, and full in sight,While secret longings for the lost delightOf tourney or adventure in the fieldCame over him, and tears but half concealedTrembled and fell upon his beard of white,So I behold these books upon their shelf,My ornaments and arms of other days;Not wholly useless, though no longer used,For they remind me of my other self,Younger and stronger, and the pleasant waysIn which I walked, now clouded and confused.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No, we absolutely should do it. If we can capture such a motherlode, it could make a pivotal difference in the coming war. We need it. AEGIS needs it, my mother needs it. This is why we’re here.“I’m merely pausing at the precipice of the cliff, peeking down into the chasm and asking, ‘Are we sure?’ So…” Alex eyed him wearing an uneasy grimace “…are we sure?
— G.S. Jennsen, Relativity
I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.
— Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China
It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.
— Denis Markell, Click Here to Start
Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. “No. Find another plan.”“There is no other plan. This isn’t even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that’s certain to fail and end in your deaths.
— G.S. Jennsen, Relativity
I can’t believe I thought this was going to be boring. This is great!
— Denis Markell, Click Here to Start
The real gift of today is somehow finding the me I knew ought to exist but has not.
— Gary M. Douglas, The Place
The riskiest yet rewarding thing is to paint in our head of how our life is going to be.
— Sarvesh Jain, The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world
Clear vision holds the key.
— M.J. Colewood
Let the game be ventured!
— M.J. Colewood
History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..
— M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient England
With the right books, we can change everything.
— Rachel Caine, Paper and Fire
To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.
— Edward Albee
You never discover the unexpected if you always stick with the familiar
— Jeff Dixon-Terror in the Kingdom
Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.
— Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker
Alice jumped from flagstone to flagstone, her face caught in the rainlight glow, her hand grasping for a touch of gold. The towns excitement was contagious, and the air was so thick with promise Alice could almost bite into it.
— Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
We are but faint-hearted crusaders...our expeditions are but tours...half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walks, perchance, in the spirit of stirring adventure, never to return, --prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms...if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.
— Henry David Thoreau
My journey was not over, it was just beginning.
— Aubrey Moore, Butterfly Red Sky
Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.
— Jaleigh Johnson, The Secrets of Solace
Fall in love with someonewho tastes like adventurebut looks likethe calm, beautiful morningafter a terrible storm
— Nikita Gill
I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
You are now 18standing on the precipice,trembling before your own greatness.This is your call to leap.There will always being those who say you are too young and delicate to make anything happen for yourself. They don’t see the part of you that smolders.Don’t let their doubting drown out the sound of your own heartbeat.You are the first drop of a hurricane.Your bravery builds beyond youYou are needed by all the little girls still living in secret, writing oceans made of monsters andthrowing like lightening.You don’t need to grow up to find greatness.You are stronger than the world has ever believed you to be.The world is waiting for you to set it on fireTrust in yourselfand burn.
— Clementine von Radics
A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.
— Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps
Mike couldn’t believe that Mr. Mackey’s secret tragedy was connected to his store, and no one had ever told him.“Do you think he’d ever take it back?”	“Why would he? His son was never found, and he still blames your dad for it. I think it’s his way of making himself feel better about the accident. He thinks horror movies are evil or something.”	“That’s stupid. Most kids are more scared of him than they are of horror movies,” Mike said, “He shouldn’t blame my dad.”	“He thinks he’s protecting the kids,” Tim said, rolling his eyes. 	“Well, if he is trying to save kids, why is he so mean to us? Everyone’s afraid of him. Even Jack.”	“I don’t know. I guess he’s just a cranky old man. Don’t take it personally. He’s had it rough. He has to stand on that playground everyday knowing that just over that fence, his son’s body is down there somewhere.”	 “Then why doesn’t he teach at another school?”	“I don’t know, bud. Sometimes people just like to torture themselves.” - Saving Hascal's Horrors
— Laura Smith
Don’t tell Mom, but I think my little emergency last night was a sign. And I was thinking of you when it happened. So, I’m worried that this is a prediction about you. Do you have something big planned? Something dangerous that you’re going to do?”	Mike looked away. He didn’t want to lie to her but he also couldn’t tell her his plan. 	“Well, whatever it is, don’t do it, okay? You’re going to get the feeling soon too. I know it,” she yawned, “It feels like it’s a long way off, but I’ve never had this strong a reaction before. And now that I’m stuck in bed, I can’t help you…or stop you. So please, whatever you’re doing, let it go, okay? Especially if it’s about the shop. Just let me handle it.”	“I’ll be careful,” he said. 	“Huh?” she yawned again. 	He didn’t answer. Her eyelids grew heavy until they closed all the way. Mike lifted the sheet that was turned down from the bed and draped it over her. Then, he left the room, closing the door behind him. - Saving Hascal's Horrors
— Laura Smith
He let go of the rope one hand at a time and latched onto Lisa’s hands. Her fingernails dug into his wrists, but her grip was strong after a summer of lifting girls into the air. It was a tug of war battle between his friends and Shawn’s ghost. The wind died down as Shawn gathered all of his energy to pull on Mike. Even though he was terrified of what was happening, Mike knew that Shawn wasn’t trying to hurt him. After all these years, he was still trying to find a way out. Shawn wanted to go home too, and he saw the hope of being rescued falling away. 	“Shawn! Please! Let me go!” Mike called over the dying wind, “I’ll get you help! We’ll get you out! Just please! Let me go!” - Saving Hascal's Horrors
— Laura Smith
Overcoming challenges makes life a worthwhile adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a worthwhile adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity is mountain in adventure
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
— Shannon L. Alder
As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much more than the cultivation of an ever-shrinking horizon of self-preservation and and self-expression.
— Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
If you want to know the age of the Earth—look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reveal the heart of a man? Between Suez and the China Sea are many nameless men who prefer to live and die unknown. This is the story of one such man. Among the great gallery of rogues and heroes thrown up on the beaches and ports—no man was more respected or more damned than—Lord Jim.
— Joseph Conrad
People change. Sometimes I think they don't know they're changing until it's already happened, though. You get so used to being one person, it's weird when you wake up and everything is different.
— Lindsey Kelk, What a Girl Wants
We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl
He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto - or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second. Men have not found the words for it nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers --- show me yours --- show me that it is possible --- show me your achievements --- and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
We must have within ourselves some consciousness of this impelling power that may lead us to travel deliberately through our ages, realizing that the most wonderful adventures are not those which we go forth to seek.
— Frances Chesterton
Question Everything
— Josh Langley, Turning Inside Out - what if everything we've been taught about life is wrong?
Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. “Jude Winslow, I presume.
— G.S. Jennsen, Abysm
I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.
— Alexandra Potter, Love from Paris
Sometimes we have to try on a few different personalities before we found ourselves.
— Lindsey Kelk, About a Girl
They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.
— Melissa Hill, A Gift to Remember
If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer..
— Lindsey Kelk, About a Girl
I can’t be 100 per cent sure about the whole death thing as I’m still here,
— Josh Langley, Turning Inside Out - what if everything we've been taught about life is wrong?
Listen to the beat of your soul ~Soul Eater
— Atsushi Ohkubo
Is that how you’re supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other’s social media pages?
— Alexandra Potter, Love from Paris
Sometimes things need shaking up. You’ve got to test the limits.
— Lindsey Kelk, About a Girl
Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.
— Lindsey Kelk, About a Girl
That’s what so many people get wrong about fashion now. It shouldn’t be about the trends or the size zeros or who’s using fur and who isn’t
—  it should be about love.
Alex peered behind her to see Noah fussing over a scrape on Kennedy’s cheek. “Unless someone’s bleeding to death, first aid will have to wait. You’ll want to strap into the jump seats. “This could get interesting, and that’s before we get clear of the station.
— G.S. Jennsen, Abysm
The best adventures tend to start unexpectedly, and end unexpectedly too.
— Nica Shea
A killer on the payroll isn't good for business.' Devour
— LA Larkin
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore... Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible... It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.
— Ferdinand Magellan
People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
You look like you’ve been on a month-long bender. Have you?”“No, Ken, I have not. I’ve just had a long week.” Walked the streets of a city bathed in blood and stood amid a hundred thousand corpses. Negotiated a three-way peace treaty among opposing factions of a warring alien species who’d previously held me captive. Bullied the Metigen leadership into doing my bidding. Found out we’re not the real humans, and the real humans are currently enslaving the real universe. Oh, and I think I’m addicted to my ship. How was your week? “Nothing a shower and some food won’t fix.
— G.S. Jennsen, Abysm
Always remember that when a new moment, a new insight, hovers around you, choose the new because the old has not done anything for you, so what is the point of going back? Even if the new proves wrong, then too, choose the new. At least it will be a new adventure; you will come to know something.
— Osho, Tao: The Pathless Path
It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was thus that she felt herself; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless. And to everybody there was always this sense of unlimited resources, she supposed; one after another, she, Lily, Augustus Carmichael, must feel, our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless. There were all the places she had not seen; the Indian plains; she felt herself pushing aside the thick leather curtain of a church in Rome. This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it. They could not stop it, she thought, exulting. There was freedom, there was peace, there was, most welcome of all, a summoning together, a resting on a platform of stability.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
What's life without whims?
— David Gatata
It is one long adveture, let's continue it!Let's make it as long as possible!
— Deyth Banger
Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every day you live is a day for dreaming.Every day is a day for adventuring.And every day is for sharing with people you love,because love's all that lasts.It's the only thing we carry out of this world.It connects us all, in the end.
— Natalie Lloyd
I'm going on an adventure
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim thrilling novelty. It was spookwar then, adventure; not exactly soldiers, not even advisors yet, but Irregulars, working in remote places with little direct authority, acting out their fantasies with more freedom than most men ever know.
— Michael Herr, Dispatches
Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons,” Shinzo told her. “Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that’s why you’re here. To do something extraordinary.
— Kaylin McFarren, Buried Threads
Victor spread his hands and beamed. “There’s a truckload of supplies sitting on a dock in Madera. We got food, medicine, and machines ready to roll. All we need is a pigheaded truck driver with giant cojones and no brains to ram the stuff past the blockade and save the day.” The pilot leaned back and put his hands behind his head. “Naturally, I thought of Abel Yeager.
— Scott  Bell, Yeager's Mission
Is it considered unadventurous if you really don't feel like doing it? Sometimes I lie awake parcelling out my adventurousness or lack thereof. Should I have done it anyway on the off-chance that something adventurous would happen, and damn the consequences of giving a faulty impression in the process? Can you choose your adventures or does that make them comprised? I think I only take chances when there is a good chance of reward. I may have it all wrong.
— Michelle Orange
You have to get lost before you can be found.
— Jeffrey Rasley, Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal
There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.
— Shannon L. Alder
He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man needed few things to live. And it was good not to get used to many things when life was unsettled. Again and again one had to abandon them or they were taken away. One should be ready to leave every day. That was the reason he had lived alone— when one was on the move one should not have anything that could bind one. Nothing that could stir the heart. The adventure— but nothing more.
— Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Any situation is new adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You know you've reached rock bottom when you're standing on the beach, looking to the horizon, and you don't notice you'r ankle-deep in dead fish.
— Peter Lerangis
When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear
— S.F. Chandler, We The Great Are Misthought
It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
A life filled with challenge will never be boring.
— Laurel McHargue
This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils -- that has been more than any baggins deserves.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Life is an experimental field. You can explore by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip.
— Chris Gethard
Evenings were peaceful, smoke settling in the quiet air to soften the dusk, lights twinkling on the ridge we would camp on tomorrow, clouds dimming the outline of our pass for the day after. Growing excitement lured my thoughts again and again to the West Ridge….There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find what I really sought was something I had left behind.
— Thomas F. Hornbein
Sometimes the more you try to focus on something, the less you really see it's beauty. - Burnum (Aboriginal Guide)
— Samuel L. Norman, The Adventures of Grant McKingsley and The Secret of the Phoenix
...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that’s why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon.
— Jack Kerouac
Mac, are we having an adventure? Is someone going to shoot at me? Am I going to be kidnapped again? Locked in a trunk and dropped into the sea? Experimented on with growth hormones? Chased by a lunatic in a mechanical werewolf getup? It sure feels like we’re having an adventure.”“Yep, we’re having an adventure,” Mac said.
— Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?
— Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge
Even their downtime was epic.
— Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see.”“Oh. You’re a bit east.
— Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
In the silence of the mountain there is much you can learn.
— Dennis McKay, The Shaman and the Stranger
I was fascinated by information about the Earth's magnetic field in my geological studies, and started wondering what would happen if long-overdue changes in geomagnetism manifested in modern times. I decided, working with my wife Tiane, to take these ideas further by adding a dash of adventure and dramatic twists and turns exploring how different types of people, good and bad, might react.
— J. Barry Reid, Reversal: The Skyfire Begins
The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...
— P.G. Wodehouse
Tell me, Miss Hathaway … what would you do if you were invited on a midnight ride across the earth and ocean? Would you choose the adventure, or stay safely at home?” She couldn’t seem to tear her gaze from his. The topaz eyes were lit by a glint of playfulness, not the innocent mischief of a boy, but something far more dangerous. She could almost believe he might actually change form and appear beneath her window one night, and carry her away on midnight wings … “Home, of course,” she managed in a sensible tone. “I don’t want adventure.” “I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.” “I don’t have moments of weakness. Not that kind, at any rate.” His laughter curled around her like a drift of smoke. “You will.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
We'll make the trip a race, and I'll get there first.
— C.J. Milbrandt, On Your Marks: The Adventure Begins
Life is a beautiful adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What emerged from the portal was not the feared armada. Instead, it was a single ship. A familiar ship. I felt a quickening in my atoms.Clever, dangerous girl. I have been expecting you.
— G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace
You can conquer fear with faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.
— Georgette Heyer, The Toll-Gate
Don't complain that your life is boring. It is because you never did anything exciting.
— Erika Woods
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
— Helen Keller, The Open Door
Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar
— Jenny Erpenbeck
Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible landscapes of the twelve-tone scale, just as not all of us strive for inaccessible mountain-tops, or glory in storms at sea. But the human incidence is there. Could it be that these two impractical pursuits — of beauty and of adventure’s embrace — are simply two differing profiles of the same uniquely human reality?
— Robert Ardrey
I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis
— Jayden Hunter, Undressed To The Nines
I don’t know if I can.”I splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. “It’s easier if you don’t think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can’t touch you. And before long, you’ll forget what you were worried about.”Her lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. “Is that what you do?”“It works.” Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed. ~ Caleb
— Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trust
It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
It is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.
— Debasish Mridha
And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.
— Sage Kafsky
I am obsessed with making every moment of my life full of value and substance. I’m constantly fighting for miracle and adventure, and everyone around me tells me to just enjoy life and stop fighting. Then I realized—I AM the adventure, and I AM the miracle. I’m fighting for myself, and I will NEVER give up fighting for who I am. If the greatest adventure is life, and the purest miracle is this very moment, then what the hell am I even waiting for?
— Hillary Wen
Life is an adventure. No-one knows if you can do it but yourself. Set a high bar.
— Dale Jacobsen
Why try to fit yourself into that same, tired mold when you could become something better?""Because it's safe," he said. "Don't we all want to feel safe?"Linley shrugged. "Not always. Sometimes I like to push the boundaries. I like seeing what I'm truly capable of."The both ducked down to miss a long, overhanging branch that skimmed across the jungle path. "But you could get hurt," Patrick said. "You could get yourself killed.""Isn't death the one risk of really living?
— Allyson Jeleyne, A Love That Never Tires
Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.
— Mekael Shane
Experiment your sacred self!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Where's your sense of misadventure?
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
And the Great Adventure - the real life equivalent of all the adventure stories they'd devoured as boys - consisted of crouching in a dugout, waiting to be killed. The war that had promised so much in the way of 'manly' activity had actually delivered 'feminine' passivity, and on a scale that their mothers and sisters had hardly known. No wonder they broke down.
— Pat Barker, The Regeneration Trilogy
Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
She skidded around a corner, slamming her shoulder into the wall and bouncing off of it without slowing. Caleb?Silence. Forty-six meters. A long stretch of hallway. She pushed faster, harder. Twenty meters.She burst into the room in unison with a deafening crash of metal shearing metal.
— G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace
The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life.
— Tracy L. Higley, Awakening
Debt is always negative, no matter how positively you try to look at it. The “minus” sign in front of your bank balance is a dead giveaway, despite what you might think about leveraging or whatever. It’s even worse when it’s a credit card or a student loan, and you can’t even remember what you’ve bought or learned with it. Sure, the minimum repayments will eventually cancel it out, but by that time you will most likely have dentures and be peeing anywhere you damn well please.
— Ana Spoke, Shizzle, Inc
Keep exploring, you will discover new path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself?
— Charlotte Brontë
Sheesh two-legs. You keep screechin' like that, you mind's well tell all 'em Banshee "I'm here, eat me - I bring salt
— Veronica Purcell, In Anwar's Care
Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.
— Jen Calonita, Paparazzi Princess
I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
A million dollars. Think about it for a moment. It’s not just a large number – it’s a symbol of everything we’ve been told to want in this world. Foreign cars with doors that swing up like magical wings. Houses with in-ground pools and wine cellars. Wines that are older than you, and foods with names that can’t be pronounced by mere mortals. A million dollars would open the kind of doors the general public doesn’t even know exist.
— Ana Spoke, Shizzle, Inc
My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
The lucky ones are those who take every opportunity and turn every life experience onto truth seeking adventure. They end up full filled with deeper dimensions of pleasure and spirit satisfaction.~Inspired by: Rania Rageh~
— Sameh Elsayed
I wasn't pissed off
—  I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.
When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.
— Sunday Adelaja
I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue.
— Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?” I gasped.
— Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.
— Yoshihiro Togashi, Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 32
You know,” Rolf said, “you read stories when you're little, and you think it would be so amazing to have adventures happen to you. Then you actually go on one, and find out that it's awful. Nothing but bad food, sleeping cold on the hard ground, and treachery.
— Jessica Day George, Thursdays with the Crown
Where the signposts end, the trail begins.
— Marty Rubin
A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?
— E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet
As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!
— E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet
As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that’s what life is like, that’s what interests me.
— Joss Whedon
Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before.
— Robert Lyndon
I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
All great adventures start with an idea.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
Remember... It's a jungle out there!
— James R. King
Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
You can judge this book by its cover.
— Tom Icon, Izz of Zia: The Good the Bad and the Noble
There is a difference between ‘off-limits’ and those places you can visit without getting caught.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
I’ve made it my mission to discover that which is off the beaten track. Somewhere in the undergrowth of the impossible.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?''Exactly.'I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
I’ll be off exploring, searching for those out-of-bounds places where dreams exist.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
Breathe deeply, focus your thoughts, and say out loud, “The quest begins here.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale