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Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepped out onto it, away from the trees, she felt how hard it was, and how long. She almost turned back then; but instead she took a deep breath of the woods air that still drifted to her, and held it in her mouth like a flower, as long as she could.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
September felt panic burn through her like gasoline. Why couldn't he understand her? "But I didn't [choose]! I have hardly had a chance to breathe since I got here and it's always like that in Fairyland. Everything is always happening and all at once. And I am growing up, Saturday! I am growing up and I have read books, so many books, and I know that growing up means you can't keep going to Fairyland the way you did when you were a child! Something happens to you and suddenly you have to keep a straight face and a straight line and I am afraid! I want something grand and I don't want to know what it is before it happens!
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Before I knew it, I was once again being whisked down the hallways at the new hospital into an even bigger room, one that, unbeknownst to me, would be my home for what would feel like a long, long time.
— Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury
I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one.
— J.R. Rim
The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
— Almney King, All Light Will Fall
My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
Life in the wild, as I’m observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
The promise of adventure is often more exciting than the adventure itself.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy.
— Almney King
The world was healing itself.
— Anthony Horowitz
A blur. That’s what it felt like to me
— Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury
All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right.
— Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury
I'm going home." - Celeste"To never return?" - Uway"Yes, show me the way to never return." - CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL
— Almney King
Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.
— Rick Yancey
...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.
— Carine McCandless, The Wild Truth: A Memoir
An adventurous life does not necessarily mean climbing mountains, swimming with sharks, or jumping off cliffs. It means risking yourself by leaving a little piece of you behind in all those you meet along the way.
— Shawna Grapentin
When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever namesuits you, rediscover the art of meandering.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with amore honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he muttered an oath.All he wanted was for Amelia to be safe and happy, dammit. That and to beat every honorable man in England into the dust.
— Tamara Hughes, Beauty's Curse
Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes
— Vicki Alayne Bradley, Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World
He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with a more honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he muttered an oath. All he wanted was for Amelia to be safe and happy, dammit. That and to beat every honorable man in England into the dust.
— Tamara Hughes
You’re as lovely as a flower in the stark of winter… Your hair is the color of wheat under the midday sun, and your eyes—”“Yes, yes. My eyes are like the sea or the sky or some such nonsense,” she quipped with a laugh, the lilting sound like the finest music, better than anything he could ever play.
— Tamara Hughes, Beauty's Curse
Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place.
— Jeno Marz, Falaha's Journey: A Spacegirl's Account in Three Movements
Eyuran,” I addressed his Node. “What was in this one?”He came closer and studied the huge case, which was easily twice the height of an adult Danna and had body slots for some kind of gear.“I don’t know for sure. I haven't seen this before. It resembles a gearbot sarx, but those are usually larger. Must be a new, compact model.” Observing the empty sarx, a wave of bad feelings came over me.“I also saw some of the weapon crates with broken locks.”“If someone is operating a gearbot, a bunch of guns will be the least of our worries. A hull repairer can’t even begin to compete with the power of an assault exomachine.” He looked around and frowned. “By the way, the whole hull repairer rack is empty. Counting the one you took out, we should have seven more roaming somewhere on the ship.
— Jeno Marz, Falaha's Journey: A Spacegirl's Account in Three Movements
When he bowed his head to hide his grin, she stiffened. “This is most certainly not amusing.”He looked up, the humor still glittering in his eyes, and spoke one word. “James.”“Pardon me?”“James Lamont. It’s my name. You’ll need it if you’re to curse me properly.
— Tamara Hughes, Tempting the Pirate
We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.I want to know.And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.
— Jeno Marz, Falaha's Journey: A Spacegirl's Account in Three Movements
The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.
— Tamara Hughes, Tempting the Pirate
I thought carefully as I watched Eyuran treat Uncle Orewen’s wounds. There is no one in their right mind who would assault a Danna, simply because the enemy of an individual becomes the enemy of the whole kennar. Kennar are usually related to each other, which would probably make the unlucky person the enemy of the entire Tue Dannan.And Danna settle things the old way.
— Jeno Marz, Falaha's Journey: A Spacegirl's Account in Three Movements
Charity followed the pirate. To salvation or to hell, she would soon find out.
— Tamara Hughes, Tempting the Pirate
He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with amore honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he muttered an oath. All he wanted was for Amelia to be safe and happy, dammit. That and to beat every honorable man in England into the dust.
— Tamara Hughes, Beauty's Curse
Live your life as a novel with a daring, awesome main character; otherwise you’re just there for comic relief.
— Alexandra Bunker
Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.
— Robyn Davidson
What ifs” are the doorways into new adventures. “Why nots” are the doorknobs. We turn knobs and tug at doors until we find the one that opens for us. The Maker will leave that one unlocked and when we get to the other side, the light will be on and He’ll be waiting with all the resources and help we need to fulfill His best desires for us.
— Kevin E. Beasley, What if...Why not? Walking Through the Doors of Adventure
I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice."Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick.
— Sarah Nicolas, Dragons Are People, Too
A pulse. Beat-beating against her palm. Alive. Beat by beat the bottomless whirlwind of perceptions and data and images and sensations careening through her mind—so many how can this tiny skull hold them all—began to abate in time to the rhythm of not her pulse, but his.
— G.S. Jennsen, Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three
When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.
— Bernard Moitessier, Tamata and the Alliance
What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?
— Leigh Ann Henion, Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
Because we were the good guys. We were in the right. The universe looks out for people who act with honor in furtherance of an honorable cause. It must, or we never would have gotten this far as a species.”“We won—this little conflict and a thousand like it—because we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome.
— G.S. Jennsen, Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three
This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
These three children own the summer. They know the wood as surely as they know the micro landscapes of their own grazed knees; put them down blindfolded in any dell or clearing and they could find their way out without putting a foot wrong. This is their territory, and they rule it wild and lordly as young animals; they scramble through its trees and hide-and-seek in its hollows all the endless day long, and all night in their dreams.
— Tana French, In the Woods
Vision is the #1 key to adventure.
— Matthew Donnelly
Spring time is a time for new adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
New hope, new adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Targets achieve by chasing adventures of works.Lets find one more adventures work.
— maulikatma
... you know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair...
— Emmuska Orczy
For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together.He wasn't human. Would never be human. And Meg didn't expect him to be. But feeling her hand in his, Simon thought maybe he could learn to be human enough.
— Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver
Wonder isn't about finding answers
—  it's about becoming more comfortable with questions.
You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.
— Jack Kerouac
Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty too.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron
She pointed to the wreckage of one of the frigates in the distance. Half the ship had landed atop one of the towers on the edge of the city, the other half on the flatland beyond. “You didn’t…do that, did you?” He shrugged with proper dramatic flair. “I did say I came to rescue you. They were in my way.
— G.S. Jennsen, Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three
Come on," I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.
— Sangu Mandanna, The Lost Girl
In my experience endings are false positives. Perhaps like a phoenix, out of the ashes of destruction we could be reborn."-Cassandra Rainbow in PHOENIX-
— Vaun Murphrey
Loved life is full of suspence,adventures where excitement dance
— Kishore Bansal
The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I’ll do whatever I can to help guarantee this plan succeeds, and I’ll try to make sure I’m in the right place at the right time.” “The right place and time for what?”“If I knew that, ma’am, I probably wouldn’t need to be there.
— G.S. Jennsen, Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three
The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.If only humans understood...Most ignore it.
— Amanda Dubin, Assassins Wall
To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.
— James Rennell
As the sky began to darken she sank down in the chair. She had just watched over a thousand Alliance soldiers die in the space of less than a minute. Yet the encounter would be considered a victory, for the enemy was vanquished. But at such a cost. She considered what Alex had asked of her…and began to understand.
— G.S. Jennsen, Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three
What do you want me to do? Arrest them all?” “When you can, absolutely.” “And when I can’t?” “Do whatever is necessary to remove their ability to act against us—against humanity.” “You mean kill them.” Her expression darkened in what he sensed was sorrow, but her shoulders rose. “If that’s what it takes.
— G.S. Jennsen, Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three
The colored hobo and now Junior Rabbit had told us, ‘Be ready to compete but be ready to fight too or you may not get a chance to compete’.
— Clarence Hunter
I look at life as an adventure. Each new chapter brings new opportunities.
— Michelle M. Pillow
I desire you so much that I believe I might lose my reason. My body yearns for yours, and I crumble every single time you touch me. I've tried to be stronger but the memory of you inside me burns me. No man has ever made me feel the way you did. Whether you believe me or not, I will cherish that unforgettable moment for the rest of my life.
— Chris Lange, The Lord of the Clans
Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.
— Carol Ryrie Brink
He held her forever. Ashy flickers swam in his eyes, shadows of temptation drawing her into infinite depths. A breath away from his tantalising mouth, she parted her lips. The thudding of her pulse hurt. The knocking of her heart brushed her soul. She sank into him.
— Chris Lange, The Lord of the Clans
The thing is… I was a very proud girl. I never wanted to take the chance I might get hurt. Isn’t that funny? I was game for any exciting adventure that came my way, but when it came to risking my heart, I was a coward.
— Nicole Christie, Falling for the Ghost of You
Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things. Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.
— Amy Poehler
Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then —May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.
— Edward Abbey
My lord, I’d rather be alone.” His smile vanished. Not a single muscle in his body bulged, but the color of his eyes turned to dark ashes.“And I’d rather not.
— Chris Lange, The Lord of the Clans
What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must.
— H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon
But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.
— P.L. Travers
The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.
— John Buchan
Because often it is the reader of adventures who saves the world. Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages... A reader never walks away from her own story.
— R.K. Ryals, Fist of the Furor
I've changed so much. Look at me! I'm eating scones on a bed with a pirate!
— Lara Hays, Oceanswept
You don’t have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.
— Pauline Creeden, Raven
There is no adventure without risk, and no exhilaration like adventure.
— A.R. Ivanovich
He watches the shadows cast by her hands as she sorts through their clothes scattered across the floor. The shape of her arms as she reaches up, slipping his black T-shirt over her head -- like victory. He considers the triumph of this moment, the slick of sweat on his chest. A small clatter, then the sound of a striking match. Her face glows. he reaches for her. She blows the match out, darts across the room, lights another one, glows, blows it out.
— Suzanne Alyssa Andrew, Circle of Stones
Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles – where wrinkles meet Tinseltown. For famous pug actor Kato Rhyan, acting isn't about fame, it's a part of him buried deep within his soul; and he's not about to let anything stand in his way of becoming the first animal to win an Oscar for Best Actor, even if it means taking on a role that requires a wrinkly dog's worst nightmare -- Botox injections. Dr. Carrington looked as though the wind had been knocked out of her. “Why would anyone ever want to go back to wrinkles?” she stammered.“Well, obviously, we only agreed to do this because of the role. His face needs to be smooth for the fur extensions. But come on, you didn’t really expect him to want to stay wrinkle-free. Honestly, he’s a pug. They’re supposed to be wrinkly.”“I mean, I know it can be done, but no one has ever asked me to do it before. Plus, I have a reputation to uphold. This is Beverly Hills. The last thing I need is the reputation that I can’t keep my wrinkles straight.” Rhys Ella, Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles, 2014.
— Rhys Ella, Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles
There are people who prefer to say 'yes' and there are people who prefer to say 'no'. Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.
— Keith Johnstone
Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says “come hither” to be reason enough to go.
— Vironika Tugaleva
They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio
Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
— Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Flashlights would have been nice. Next adventure, Coralee was going to bring a flashlight.
— Caitlin Rush, Curses Beneath Her Feet
What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes do - leave one of your kind in the jungle to die if it suited your whim to go elsewhere.If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one has run away from you.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Daddy was always searching for new adventure--always looking for a revelation. He used to say 'If you climb every mountain and walk into every valley, one day you'll surprise the Great Creator at his work.
— John McLay, On Mountaintop Rock
What is adventure? Adventure offers every human being the ability to live ‘the’ moment of his or her most passionate idea, fantasy or pursuit. It may take form in the arts, acting, sports, travel or other creative endeavors. Once engaged, a person enjoys ‘satori’ or the perfect moment. That instant may last seconds or a lifetime. The key to adventure whether it be painting, dancing, sports or travel: throw yourself into it with rambunctious enthusiasm and zealous energy—which leads toward uncommon passion for living. By following that path, you will attract an amazing life that will imbue your spirit and fulfill your destiny as defined by you alone. In the end, you will savor the sweet taste of life pursuing goals that make you happy, rewarded and complete. As a bonus, you may share your life experiences with other bold and uncommon human beings that laugh at life, compare themselves with no one and enjoy a whale of a ride! Frosty Wooldridge from How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World
— Frosty Wooldridge, How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World
Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?
— M.J. Mandoki
I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?
— Paul Bamikole
Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]
— Maria Grazia Swan, Ashes of Autumn
No real adventure ever started by waiting patiently by a doorstep.
— Ruth Cardello, Taken, Not Spurred
Wherever you go, find your adventure by looking for the unknown - there you might find yourself.
— Brandon Scott
My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security.
— Marquita Burke-DeJesus, Radically Ordinary
I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.
— Marquita Burke-DeJesus
One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
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.
— Christopher Johnson McCandless, Into the Wild
Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky.She settled for stretching out an imagined hand, palm upturned, and letting a shard fall through it untouched like the ghost she had become.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.
— 黃玉華, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful and flawed and perfect.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family, and for our family, we are prepared to do anything, even die.
— 黃玉華, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
She didn’t want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn’t want to be the vanguard—of destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her the stars.Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
We—humanity—didn’t come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and by doing so brought us to where we are today. No one has ever told us ‘no’ and succeeded in making it stick for long.We accede to these aliens’ demands and we’ll wither away. It may take centuries or even millennia, but we’ll be so busy cowering in fear we’ll forget to move forward.I say we fight.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. “I’ll be damned.”“Possibly. But not today, I think.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance.He allowed himself two seconds to watch it and came away with the sense they were losing. Not lost and not soon, but losing.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Take a journey into the world of possibilities.You will be amazed with your adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?”Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.”“To — Where’s that? What for?”“To sell my jewels, Mrs. Pool. And to see Aladdin, and Harun-al-Rashid and Ali Baba. And the Forty Thieves.”Mrs. Pool had left her rocker and had come down the steps. The wagon creaked on past her gate. She took a step or two down the path, and called after them. “I never heard of it. Bag — How do you get there?”Over her shoulder Selina called out from the wagon seat. “You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say ‘Open Sesame!’ and there you are.”Bewilderment shadowed Mrs. Pool’s placid face. As the wagon lurched on down the road it was Selina who was smiling and Mrs. Pool who was serious.The boy, round eyed, was looking up at his mother. “That’s out of Arabian Nights, what you said. Why did you say that?” Suddenly excitement tinged his voice. “That’s out of the book. Isn’t it? Isn’t it! We’re not really ——”She was a little contrite, but not very. “Well, not really, perhaps. But ’most any place is Bagdad if you don’t know what will happen in it. And this is an adventure, isn’t it, that we’re going on? People in disguise in the Haymarket. Caliphs, and princes, and slaves, and thieves, and good fairies, and witches.”“In the Haymarket! That Pop went to all the time! That is just dumb talk.
— Edna Ferber, So Big
He was terrified he was making the wrong choice. He relied on his instincts in his work but now he didn’t dare trust them. The wound of betrayal still burned raw in his chest and another cut might be the killing blow.But it was the end of the world and there may be no more second chances.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
[She had] a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
— Edna Ferber, So Big
The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Capture yesterday's moments,they are future memories
— Penwell Chiloane
Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You’re covered in blood again.”“I really am.” “Why are you always covered in blood when I wake up after being unconscious?” “Usually for the same reason you were unconscious, I think.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other. No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation.”“Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo: Aurora Rising Book Two
You’re insane.”“It’ll work.”“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
His punch knocked her back a meter into the wall. His fist had moved of his own volition, carrying a rage and frustration all its own. To his dismay, she didn’t fall. People so small as her always fell.No tears pooled in her eyes; instead they flared golden amber as she rubbed her jaw and pushed off the wall to stand rigid straight. A peculiar smile danced across her lips as blood trickled from the corner of her mouth and down her chin.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
The Artificial’s speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. “I just have good instincts. Mostly I love being in space.” But you are not ‘in’ space. You are in your starship and your starship is in space. It is not so different than being on a planet. “Oh, Valkyrie, you have no idea.” Tell me then.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
So that’s why I say ‘never have anything you can’t walk away from.’ Especially a woman. For them, because this is a dangerous life we lead and you never know if or when it will blow back on those close to you.""And for you, because trust me when I tell you there exists no greater perdition than the guilt of causing the death of someone you love.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony in her head——a song of quantum mechanics and trajectory calculations and astroscience physics and where to go, where to go, where to…
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others.“I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
If her daughter’s ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And Admiral Miriam Solovy did not break.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Blood drummed in her ears and adrenaline coursed through her veins, driving her to move. To act. Her hands trembled against his chest.Time vanished out from beneath her feet, one accelerating second at a time.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
They flew high above savanna grassland. The sky was the deep cornflower blue of a sunny late afternoon on Earth…exactly the color of a sunny late afternoon on Earth.Only there was no sun. Whatever was lighting this planet, it wasn’t a star.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Above the curving arc of the planet, a mammoth explosion plumed crimson and charcoal then erupted in a starburst of crystaline white which for a microsecond shone brighter than a sun. For the briefest moment he allowed himself to entertain the notion that they might win this battle.Then the real battle began.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled.“How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Do you love me?” His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool’s chance at that
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death.A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, ‘Screw it, I’m going out in style!
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother’s consecrated grave.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
She gazed at the bay of wrecked shuttles in dismay. The last of her adrenaline seeped away at the sight of the widespread destruction.It occurred to her then, for perhaps the first time in this long nightmare, that she was going to die.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
She settled back in the chair and draped one leg casually over the other, her hands coming to rest together on her knee.“Arrest me. Torture me. Parade me about in the public square. You will have your prize catch. And you will lose everything.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Life is a daring adventure.I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Deep in the recesses of her mind, she knew they were probably watching. They watched everything, after all.Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return.
— G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Love adventurous life.Be passionately curious about exploring new adventures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone should see at least one street race before they die.
— Amanda Lance, Breakdown
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
— John Muir, The Mountains of California
Elijah: You are a dangerous woman.Valeria: You do not know the half of it, but I suppose you are not one to always dabble in safe waters either. So, do you still want to work with me?Elijah: It will be my pleasure.Valeria: Is there anything I need to know about you?Elijah: No!Valeria: That is a lie.Elijah: Is there anything I need to know about you?Valeria: No!Elijah: That is also a lie.Valeria, smiling: Then we are a pair of liars.
— Cristina M. Sburlea, In Roman Times: Empires and Madness
Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. “Don’t let go.
— G.S. Jennsen, Starshine: Aurora Rising Book One
Who am I?" She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, "You are my love.
— Deirdre Riordan Hall, In the Desert
Let Life race you out beyond your own boundaries over and over again until you are comfortable with watching the Map of Normal's edge disappear behind you.Let Life show you that it is safe to exceed your own expectations and reputation--and prove that the only danger in following her into the wilderness is a loss of your own fear.This is when we gain the warrior's heart, the master's eye, and the student's mind. After that, Life holds our hand in every adventure and shows us things not possible before.
— Jacob Nordby
Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.
— T.L. Rese
It takes Passion to bring a Vision to Life.
— Mary Adair, Passion's Vision
You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
This very moment is your greatest adventure.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the light as the shadows, with a limitless hunger for experience and knowledge, completely unafraid of life's more frightening opportunities.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!
— Laura Beth, 2 Girls, 2 Cats
Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer's soul that gnaws and aches inside of them even unto gray manhood. It is the plague of horizons, the plague of the next river bend, the plague that drives men over the vast oceans into strange lands beyond the edges of the maps.
— R.W. Schmidt, The Lands Beyond the Moon
Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her
— David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
It's like you're averse to adventure.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Later in the night, Nell brought two of the company mutts up from the stables. It took her almost an hour to find the horses, and more time to find the stall where the dogs had been penned. Then she lost her way coming back through the endless corridors and the mutts tried to bite an Ordinary.Everything is an adventure when you're a page.
— Miles  Cameron, The Fell Sword
The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.
— Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to be reminded that no matter how far you wander, there will always be something waiting when you return.
— Kendal Rob
He might have run off then, and thus avoided a great many adventures to come, but the girl cried, “Wait!” and he turned to face her. “Please,” she implored from the window. “Don’t go. Come with us. I promise you won’t regret it.”For a moment, Peter stood in the road indecisively, staring into the girl’s eyes as if trying to penetrate a great mystery.
— Christopher Daniel Mechling, Peter: The Untold True Story
It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.
— Seraphine Abrams
We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads back to laugh or cry, I'm not entirely sure which. But the scream shook the golden sunset, bringing it to its knees.
— Taylor Rhodes, Sixteenth Notes: The Breaking of the Rose-Colored Glasses
If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.
— Kathleen Flinn, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)
— Maria Grazia Swan, Bosom Bodies
This city is yawning before me, but I'm not tired.
— Taylor Rhodes, Sixteenth Notes: The Breaking of the Rose-Colored Glasses
Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.
— Ian Fleming
Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food.
— Andrew Rayner, Reach for Paradise
Who knows what adventure we might find here?" Drizzt said excitedly. "Who knows what secrets might be unveiled to us?""Adventure?" Dunkin asked incredulously, looking to the carnage along the beach, and to the zombies still frozen in the water. "Reward?" he added with a chuckle. "Punishment, more likely, though I have done nothing to harm you, any of you!""We are here to unveil a mystery," Drizzt said, as though that fact should have piqued the man's curiosity, "To learn and to grow. To live as we discover the secrets of the world about us.
— R.A. Salvatore, Passage to Dawn
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. But rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming .... WoW, what a ride.
— Mark Frost
No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter
— Mellon Black, 23 Locked Doors
Now to life...I grant you the ability to give, to take, to expedite, to wander, to love, to hate, to charge, to expend...All of life is beautiful for what it makes of us. With only this single shot, let us leap into the unknown with our eyes open and our hearts ready.
— Rachel La Rae Wilhelm
View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.
— Ashleigh Slater, Team Us: Marriage Together
I come to oil country with a book about radicals who wish for the end of pipelines. But that's not what it's about. It's the friction point of prosperity and concern, ability and disability, the loss of bodily presence and the gain of ghost messages. It's misplaced outrage and well-placed courage. It's banjo song and smoke in your eye. Stories hinge there, swinging this way and that.
— Kate Inglis, Flight of the Griffons
…There’s forty-two thousand jobs, near ten thousand of ’em got by people like us. Everyone’s gotta eat. Industry feeds ’em. They figure Little Bear here’s gonna clean it up." He squeezed his baby, a dimpled plump girl with tufts of jet-black hair."Paa paa ba baaa!" she said. It was time for a nap.Lou sipped from his thermos, and Little Bear’s eyes drooped, and Missy remembered the voice of Rasmus Krook. 'The people will pay with their whole being: physically, mentally, ideologically, spiritually, with their land, their soul. And not just country people. Not just native people. Poison will flow through villages, towns, and cities and not stop. We must rise up. We must disrupt the system. Capitalism is a deception.'"You can help pirates," she said, because that’s the only answer she knew. Lou lifted his coffee in salute, and Missy stood up to jump.
— Kate Inglis, Flight of the Griffons
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
— Lisa M. Collins
The dying bees, the Antarctic melt, the mountains of old tires, the incessant toxic belch of factories that make Batman bobbleheads for Happy Meals. Off-gassing couches! Cancerous tinned tomatoes! Imprisoned killer whales! Our breastmilk is poisoned. We live absurdedly, ridiculously. OUR BREASTMILK IS POISONED. Try and explain even one sliver of it to a kid, just one angle of a thousand, and you'll see the face of the world's most incredulous and urgent WTF.We have little to recommend us, and we know it. We shrug.Rasmus Krook is the Captain of the Griffons. He doesn't shrug.
— Kate Inglis
Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.
— Peter Duysings, Turbulent Waters
Frank heard the glass of water thump on the stand that he now imagined might be beside the bed, which meant it was. Finally something firm to grasp, in his mind and with his hand. He reached out very slowly, as he didn’t want to risk tearing the gauze that was so precariously holding his vital organs together. He felt wood. His fingers slid shakily over the corners of the table, feeling their reality, their solidity. He tried to picture it in his head, all rough hewn and unpainted, but the white kept slipping in, even though he knew Mexicans rarely painted anything with a neutral color. Still, there it was, a whitewashed bed stand in his mind. He tried to overlook it, and reached up higher to find the glass cylinder full of what his body was screaming out for, water.That was why he felt so tight, he figured. His tissues and muscles had all dried up, and he needed to rehydrate them before even attempting to move. So at last, grasping the all important container, his fingers straining against its mighty heft, he slowly slipped it to and then off of the edge of the little table. Vast oceans of bluey refuge sloshed against their constraints, spilling their powerful waves over the side, across his sleeping hand, and onto the bed sheets below that were undoubtedly as white as Santa’s fucking beard.But the spill, the great cresting of the breakers over the levee walls, tremendous in its awesome power and glory, had only served to excite him, to intrigue him, the refreshment that the backside of his hand was lapping up osmotically served only to stoke the great thirst within him, and with God steadying his hand, he tipped his gauze laden head up, muscled the glass towards his mouth with veins rippling in his arms, and tipped it.It was not a perfect pour. Water splashed against his forehead, his eyes still clenched tightly in their death struggle against the white, as he had no idea where his mouth was at that point anyway. But he really didn’t give a shit where the life giving fluid went, for he had become a very gauzey sponge, and his tissues would reach their strange and parched tendrils across the entire room if they must to soak up the precious juices that would in turn dissolve their steely grip and allow him to rise from his low perch and sallie forth across the blue fields of agave that awaited a non-suicidal tourist’s itinerary, just outside the door he could not remember but which must surely be bolted to an opening that must surely be the gateway to the very room in which he must surely be attempting to drink.
— Thomas Alton Gardner, Holy Tequila!: A Magical Adventure Under the Mexican Sun
We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.
— G.S. Jennsen, Starshine: Aurora Rising Book One