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Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.
— Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
— Seeley James
Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins
— Paula V. Hardin
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
— Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer
I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.
— William Golding
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.
— Colson Whitehead
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
— Lawrence Block, Manhattan Noir
Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.
— Chriscinthia Blount
I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.
— Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried burritos.It's true that you can get away with drinking and smoking and sunbathing when you're in your teens and twenties, and it's true that rock stars are free to die at twenty-nine, but a lit star needs a long life.
— Ariel Gore, How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.
— Orafoura
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
— G.K. Chesterton
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
— Søren Kierkegaard
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.
— Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
— Karen Blixen, Out of Africa
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
— E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
— Herman Melville
Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’‘I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
— Mercedes Lackey, Spirits White as Lightning
I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
— CrimethInc.
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.
— Holly Lisle, The Silver Door
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.
— Robin McKinley, Pegasus
All great adventures have moments that are really crap.
— Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy
Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.
— Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy
You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.
— CrimethInc., Evasion
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
— T.K. Thorne
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
— Edmund Hillary
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
— Norman Rockwell
We are going to hell together. But we're coming back alive. Don't forget that.
— Atsuko Asano, No.6, Volume 4
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
— Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
— Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan
I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.
— William Shakespeare, Richard III
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig."There," said Magnus. "Let us consider the matter settled."The monkey advanced, chewing in a menacing fashion."I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know," Magnus observed. "The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys."He ignored Giuliana's advice and took a smart step back, and also threw another piece of fruit. The monkey did not take the bait this time. He coiled and rattled out a growl, and Magnus took several more steps back and into a tree.Magnus flailed on impact, was briefly grateful that nobody was watching him and expecting him to be a sophisticated warlock, and had a monkey assault launched directly to his face.He shouted, spun, and sprinted through the rain forest. He did not even think to drop the fruit. It fell one by one in a bright cascade as he ran for his life from the simian menace. He heard it in hot pursuit and fled faster, until all his fruit was gone and he ran right into Ragnor."Have a care!" Ragnor snapped.He detailed his terrible monkey adventure twice."But of course you should have retreated at once from the dominant male," Giuliana said. "Are you an idiot? You are extremely lucky he was distracted from ripping out your throat by the fruit. He thought you were trying to steal his females.""Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." He paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance."Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led to his being in this place and especially in this company. Later he stooped and hissed, low enough so Giuliana could not hear and in a way that reminded Magnus horribly of his monkey nemesis: "Did you forget that you can do magic?"Magnus spared a moment to toss a disdainful look over his shoulder."I am not going to ensorcel a monkey! Honestly, Ragnor. What do you take me for?
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.
— Nita Morgan
Marry me, Zelda. We'll make it all up as we go. What do you say?
— Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...
— Jeanne DuPrau, The Diamond of Darkhold
Even if that is the truth,” Derkein said, “what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?
— Al   Stone, Talisman Of El
Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.
— Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying but in the end it is static a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling and sometimes even dangerous but in the end it is a journey and a story. Who really wants to stay at home and be right when you can don your armor spring up on your steed and go forth to explore the world True you might get lost along get stranded in a swamp have a scare at the edge of a cliff thieves might steal your gold brigands might imprison you in a cave sorcerers might turn you into a toad but what of what To fuck up is to find adventure: it is in the spirit that this book is written.
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
— Richard Russo
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
— Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.
— Roy Chapman Andrews
News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.
— Patricia C. Wrede, The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After
For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.
— Y.S. Lee, A Spy in the House
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness. 
— Emily Rodda, The Forests of Silence
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known...
— Vladimir Nabokov
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those.
— Homer, The Odyssey
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving.
— Maryrose Wood, The Hidden Gallery
There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.
— Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land
Adventure is a need.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.
— Cristina García, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, Roverandom
In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.
— Emily Rodda, The Forests of Silence
I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.
— David Morrell, First Blood
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
— Myrna Ericksen
They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.
— Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman
This isn't my last brush with catastrophe while making Destination Truth. Rather, it's merely the opening act in a cabaret of close calls, all in the name of exploration. I'm not saying that making D.T. is dangerous; it's not, per se. It's just that when you go out of your way to find adventure, sometimes adventure bites you on the ass. The key is figuring out how to walk away in one piece.
— Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you.
— Adrianne Ambrose, Fangs for Nothing
The kipper was in a race for it's life, and it knew it. It used all the skill its Maker had given it and drew the creature far away from the craft, to be sacrifice in the end. It was a fitting task for the kipper. But...there is a thing about monsters. They remember.
— Kathy Frias, Rumors of Eden
Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.
— Jeffery Russell, The Dungeoneers
She's young and the world's wide open.
— Jason Aldean
Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)
— Albina Fabiani
Even blind alleys lead somewhere.
— Marty Rubin
... and her name was Freedom.
— Pam Muñoz Ryan, Riding Freedom
When I grow up, maybe I will bethe first one to circle the sea.Or maybe I will just spend all my daydoing everything my way.Maybe I will be in a world of my ownI just hope not alone.I just know that whatever I doI will never, ever forget about you.
— Oliver Neubert, Chantel's Quest for the Silver Leaf
He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off
— Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Dreading dusk, fearing night, praying for dawn.
— Gregory J. Saunders
Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the park railings, gave me an exhilarating sensation of adventure.
— Simone de Beauvoir, Prime of Life
The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Keep a spur handy.
— Meg Mims, Double Crossing
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which Iwas facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything.
— Jim Corbett, champawat man-eater
Realizing that the dream had been sent to him for a purpose, Adin worked in secert over many months to create a likeness of the belt he had been shown.Then he traveled around the kingdom to persuade each tribe to allow its talisman to be added to it.
— Emily Rodda, The Forests of Silence
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World
Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace
He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it).
— Mel Odom, Boneslicer: The Quest for the Trilogy: Book One of the Trilogy
From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living, and still later scouting Tanganyika and the waterless bush country between the Tana and Athi Rivers, by aeroplane, for elephant, I remained so happily provincial I was unable to discuss the boredom of being alive with any intelligence until I had gone to London and lived there for a year. Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic.
— Beryl Markham, West with the Night
Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.
— H.G. Wells
In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.
— Irene Gut Opdyke, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Exploration is a dirty game.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty little whims. The man you will become is at your mercy.
— Dan Chaon, Stay Awake
The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte...If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.
— S.J. Musgraves, Caught in the Slipstream of Time
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.
— Christian Lander, Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
…it was even more disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: ‘UNSURVEYED.’ It was as if the mapmakers had said, ‘We are aware that between this spot and that one, there are several hundred thousands of acres, but until you make a forced landing there, we won’t know whether it is mud, desert, or jungle – and the chances are we won’t know then!
— Beryl Markham
She would have an adventure. For herself. This one time. She would see her homeland, and smell it and breathe it in. See it from high above, see it racing as fast as the wind. She owed herself that much.
— Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn
Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.
— CrimethInc., Evasion
His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.
— Rudyard Kipling
I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.
— Elle Saverini
Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.
— Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth
Everyday is another adventure!
— Tracee Raptis, Dive Tour: Raptis Trilogy: Volume One
But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.
— Homer, The Odyssey
But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.
— Michael Morpurgo, Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
Enjoy the adventure, because that’s what it’s all about - the process, not the result. The ultimate result is death. The ultimate process is life. Fact.
— Jolie Booth, The Girl Who'll Rule the World
...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present.""Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always time to appreciate a good book.
— Greg Cox
Goo'-by, ole Bill, by-by. There you go, an' the signal o' distress roun' you, H. B. 'I'm in need of assistance.' Lord, here comes the sharks--look! look! look at um fight! look at um takin' ole Bill! I'm in need of assistance. I sh'd say you were, ole Bill.
— Frank Norris, Moran of the Lady Letty
One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.
— Agatha Christie, Passenger to Frankfurt
I don't want adventure.""I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
She might not be as hard-hitting as Tzivia, but she had a depth of sincerity and gentleness that he appreciated. Needed. She cared about people. In the war of life, she was the medic and he the guy on the front lines fighting.
— Ronie Kendig, Crown of Souls
He might not like that she'd dated the guy one, but he didn't want him dead. Most of the time.
— Ronie Kendig, Crown of Souls
I have a recurring dream in which I am 85 years old, sitting in my living room, swaying back and forth in a rocking chair, studying the newspaper. I pause, look up and think of all the adventures I could have experienced and say to myself, 'Shit, I should have done that.' That is a scene I am determined will not happen in real life.
— Keith Foskett, The Last Englishman
The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are.Do not lose your way, dearie, Do not lose your way;The monsters are lurking not far from the path should you stray.Things aren’t what they seem, dearie, Things aren’t what they seem;Kind grins are bared teeth; Please don’t answer the calls from the trees.Do not pay them heed, dearie, Do not pay them heed;Hear footsteps behind you, beware but don’t fret, they’re just checking.The air is alive, dearie, The air is alive;To help and to hinder, but it’s how some learned to survive.These woods are too old, dearie, These woods are too old;Watch for crimson wraiths, keep your strength and wits close should you go.Deep in the Forest.
— Emory R. Frie
Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.
— Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.
— Sasha Martin, Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
Every experience is enduring adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.
— David Lucero, Big Jim
Thank you. That was the most fun I've had in a very long time." The horse felt the same way. His life thus far had been such a rocky journey, short on joy and long on sorrow. But as Darling led him toward the shiny Ever After High stables, he knew in his heart that his story had changed."I hope you don't mind if, on occasion, I ask you to use your camouflage skills." She giggled. "Just so we can have a fun adventure now and then." He nodded. She stopped walking and looked into his eyes. "And, because you're the horse of a princess, I think you should have the perfect knightly name. I shall hereby call you Sir Gallopad." She kissed both his cheeks, then bowed.He smiled and bowed in return.And his story began.
— Suzanne Selfors, Once Upon A Pet : A Collection of Little Pet Stories
If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?
— Toni Sorenson
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.-Ian Fleming
— Swapna Rajput, In Search of a Soulmate
Whoever risks, shall know how far they can reach.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Belle, go. If I was your age, I wouldn't have hesitated for a moment. You will always come back here, and I will always be here. And we will have those talks we need. Everyone should have a journey - and everyone should also have a home, too. Go out into the world for adventure, come home for love.
— Liz Braswell, As Old as Time
Sounds like a great place to get killed. Hard pass.
— Jackson Lanzing, Joyride Vol. 2
Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they’ve' got a lot of--
— Jackson Lanzing, Joyride Vol. 2
He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on his own. "To adventure," he said, and drank.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to come made him regret his departure less, but even so, he stood at the rail as the ship departed into the night waters.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
She shifted in her seat and took a sip of water. This was getting a bit too far out of her comfort zone. ‘Um, I would rather know exactly what I am agreeing to before I agree to anything.”‘I understand, but part of having an adventure is not knowing what’s around the corner.
— Juliet Madison, Memories of May
It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way"; that you could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go . . . well, anywhere at all. It's the same way with stories. One leads to the next, to the next, and to the next; maybe they go in the direction you wanted to go, but maybe they don't. Maybe in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.
— Stephen King, It
As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.
— Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe
You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.
— Sally J. Pla
Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
— Joyce Rachelle
In the corner of her eye she caught her daughter’s shoulders drop as Alex exhaled with uncommon soberness. “So you trust me, and you understand that I will never do anything I think might hurt you.”Miriam stopped outside the armory and pivoted to her daughter. “Alex, what have you done?
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
The real adventure is the reality of Life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The system is only as good as its leaders. When they fail—when the system fails—you better damn well hope I’m there to pick up the slack.”The man’s glower lost some of its fervor. “No one appointed you humanity’s protector.”“No one had to—and if you don’t understand why that is, then you’re not nearly the man I was told you are. I’m leaving now, and I’m going to assume we’re done. But if you threaten me again, you had better bring help.
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
Expect an army of Vigil drones, nearly as a many Praesidis guards, a Machim ground detachment of super-soldiers and at least one Inquisitor. Oh, and security barriers everywhere. Possibly some of those mechs we met on Helix Retention, too. You Humans have kicked off a shitstorm of epic proportions.”Alex spread her arms wide in an exagerrated shrug. “It’s one of our best skills.
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assault on the summit, when a team member named Art Gilkey developed thrombophlebitis, a life-threatening altitude-induced blood clot. Realising that they would have to get Gilkey down immediately to have any hope of saving him, Schoening and the others started lowering him down the mountain's steep Abruzzi Ridge as the storm raged. At 25,000 feet, a climber named George Bell slipped and pulled four others off with him. Reflexively wrapping the rope around his shoulders and ice ax, Schoening somehow managed to single-handedly hold on to Gilkey and simultaneously arrest the slide of the five falling climbers without being pulled off the mountain himself. One of the more incredible feats in the annals of mountaineering, it was known forever after simply as The Belay.
— Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
His vision blurred, his grip on the dash faltered and the cockpit lost definition. Then all the diati rushed back to him in its own shockwave.The physical force slammed him against the cockpit half-wall. He gasped air into his lungs as a crimson aura throbbed above his skin. The world spun around him, and it occurred to him if he wanted to he could control it—not the spinning, but the world.
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
Enjoy the adventure of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Novoloume gazed in interest around the cabin. “So the whispers are true—Kats, SAIs and Humans have come to join with the anarchs in a quest to save us all.”Felzeor returned to Caleb’s outstretched arm and leaned in to nuzzle his nose. “What a grand quest it’s sure to be!
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
You never know what you can do until you try, and oh the things you discover on the other side of that curtain. The treasures that await are beyond any simple measure. Just put one foot in front of the other, close your eyes, and pull the cloth back. Once you do, you will be amazed!
— T. Rea Harris
People gravitated here for the open air, the prolific intoxicants and the visual treats. They made the deals here that were later played out elsewhere. They drank and got high. Sometimes they fought, not for money but for sport or grudge.They were the desperate and the daring, the lost and the searching. Tonight, they were his audience. Tomorrow, they would be his front line.
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
She and Kennedy both dove for the power connector; Kennedy reached it first and yanked out the connection as Alex landed on her stomach beside it.The air settled down until the fine hairs on her arm no longer stood on end. Alex dropped her forehead to the platform and started laughing. “Just like university, isn’t it?”“Almost—nothing’s actually blown up yet.
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
Robust systems have a dynamic hierarchy of nested behaviors. How many moves ahead are you able to think when playing chess? How much effort are you willing to commit to understanding the deeply nuanced structure? Probably, success is not what you think it is. Adventures require novelty. Value has interesting surprises.
— R.A.Delmonico
You have business and pleasure to attend to. As an expert in both, allow me to advise you to put them aside for the next ten minutes. Why? “Because the world is about to transform, and you will want to be able to say you saw it happen. The axes of our little universe are about to flip, and you’ll want to get your magboots set.
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
Solovey will take me to the ends of the earth if I ask it. I am going into the world, Alyosha. I will be no one's bride, neither of man nor of God. I am going to Kiev and Sarai and Tsargrad, and I will look upon the sun on the sea.
— Katherine  Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
Capture your youth, while you can.
— Anthony Liccione
Wonderful adventures await for those who dare to find them.
— Hazel Gaynor, The Girl from the Savoy
You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!
— Henry Mosquera, Space Fandango: Backstabber's Blues
Lucky for me, all four of his hooves missed my body as they found the ground. I picked my head up, thankful I didn't get stomped, and watched the steer run off along the fence. Mental note: cows are not like horses. Don't let the big brown eyes fool you.
— Brittney Joy, Lucy's Chance
There the black horse stood - his feet planted firm on the ground, afraid to move. His coat was covered in sweat and a stark white rim lined his eyes. All three of us gawked at his sudden silence. The rattling metal gate was now the only sound.
— Brittney Joy, Lucy's Chance
If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.
— Gary T. Smith, Caribbean Gauntlet
if there is a point to being in the canyon, it is not to rush but to linger, suspended in a blue-and-amber haze of in-between-ness, for as long as one possibly can. To float, to drift, savoring the pulse of the river on its odyssey through the canyon, and above all, to postpone the unwelcome and distinctly unpleasant moment when one is forced to reemerge and reenter the world beyond the rim-that is the paramount goal.
— Kevin Fedarko, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
It's only crazy if we fail.
— Henry Mosquera, Space Fandango: Backstabber's Blues
Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Nisi flashed his charismatic, mysterious smile. “Now, with this in mind, are you ready to take the next step?”Despite Caleb’s attempts at caution—at circumspection and even suspicion—the man’s words stirred his blood. They teased the possibilities of the power within his reach, real power extending far beyond parlor tricks and personal protection to a place where the course of life itself could be changed.“I am.
— G.S. Jennsen, Rubicon
Not all who wander are lost
— j.r.r tolkein
I am of course lost in this journey I'm on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. so call me a fool, but I'm happy to be lost.
— Micheline Jean Louis
Tom stood and cautiously walked over to where the thief lay. He kicked the Colt away from the dirty, lifeless fingers and muttered, “You made me waste a perfectly good breakfast, you manure-headed son of a bitch…
— C.G. Faulkner, Undaunted
The twenty hooves of the horses slowed their relentless cadence on the damp ground as they approached the town. A sudden cloudburst had only just ended, and steaming snorts emitted from the winded mounts. From behind the edge of the bizarre leather mask that covered half of the leader’s face, a small smile of recognition curled on his chapped lips.
— C.G. Faulkner, Unrepentant
We choose to embrace a quest, and we choose to live for adventure.
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Now I know that anytime you see a “no trespassing” sign, it means you’ve got to go in and take a look.
— Kyung-Sook Shin, I'll Be Right There
I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.
— Henry Mosquera, Space Fandango: Backstabber's Blues
This is the Rock, sweetheart,” the owner added. “There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.
— Henry Mosquera, Space Fandango: Backstabber's Blues
There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.
— Henry Mosquera
There is no adventure like the journey of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no reason to stay. I had no family, no friends aside from her. I never even spoke to Enkai until she brought us together. It was she who first inspired me to dream of actually seeing those worlds I spent my every waking moment reading about. Her and her wild heart, her laughing spirit, so bright in her eyes whenever she spoke of her travels and all the wondrous places she had seen. When I was a boy, I envied her for her adventures. When I became a man, I only pitied her.
— Ash Gray, The Infinite Athenaeum
The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
— Henry Mosquera, Space Fandango: Backstabber's Blues
New projects are interesting when goals are grounded by the hunger to discover and integrate. The elusive are made concrete in such ways
— Val Uchendu
Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
— Ava Richardson, Dragon Legends
How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora said to herself, she would find it.
— Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage
God tells us to seize every day as an adventure in His loving arms and in so doing our spirits will soar when we discover His wonderful gifts along this narrow way
— John M Sheehan
Yomi awoke filled with the reckless energy of someone with little left to lose
— Labake Akinyosoye, Flesh and Stone
Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
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; so that Arvis (though she remembered them years later) had only a vague impression of gray lawns, quietly bubbling fountains, and the long black shadows of cypress trees.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
Set loose, a child would run down the paths, scramble up the rocks, lie on the earth. Grown-ups more often let their minds do the running, scrambling, and lying, but the emotion is shared. It feels good to be here.
— David Miller, AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
Alex thrust her hand and half her arm into the labyrinth of light. Her stare blanked, and in the halo of the matrix her eyes and glyphs blazed so radiantly she looked as if she were being consumed by a primordial fire.“She just stuck her hand into Machim Command’s central server matrix!”Caleb smiled, watching on in blatant awe. “She does that.
— G.S. Jennsen, Relativity
He wasn’t going to be able to deactivate the field, which meant there was only one choice.He’d realized early on that his arcane, profoundly alien passenger came with a cost, possibly one too high to pay and get out the other side free and clear. He’d pay it nonetheless and without complaint if the diati would only come through for him now.Caleb closed his eyes.
— G.S. Jennsen, Relativity
We are each on our own journey. Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be.
— Aamnah Akram
When it begins, where it goes how it ends...It all comes down to you.
— Tracy A. Ball, KAYOS The Bad & The Worse
...If the world gets saved in the process, don’t blame me. It happens.
— Tracy A. Ball, KAYOS The Bad & The Worse