Quotes About Adventure

For instance, given the choice between a safe, comfortable and long life for the individual or a risky, tiring and dangerous attempt to breed, virtually all animals (and indeed plants) choose the latter.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Actually, the first time I saw one in real life, I thought of the Great Pit of Carkoon in Return of the Jedi." "OK

Stevenson threw back his head and made a slow murmuring sound, If only I could secure a violent death. Pardon? What a fine success! Stevenson continued, spurring Jack into a canter as he lost himself in his thoughts. I wish to die in my boots, you see, Mr. Porter. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from this horse into a ditch, Mr. Fergins--aye, to be hanged, rather than pass through the slow dissolution of illnesses!

Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.

mmmm, space stuff

what would Scarecrow do!

Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!

I had opened a book that could not be closed, started a story that had no obvious conclusion. It was a tale in which I wanted to play no part.

You people with your quests annoy the pants off me.

After Commencement Day, the world! Joe said. With Betsy.

Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.

Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

Sometimes Stevie felt bad for her parents. Their idea of what constituted interesting was so limited. They were never going to have as much fun as she did.

The real magic rocks are the friends we make along the way.

You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

How does this keep happening to you?" David said. "Because I look," Stevie replied. "A lot of things happen when you go out and do them on purpose.

You want to play? Ellis yelled. All right, then! I played a lot of video games as a kid, bitches! There! Oliver yelled. That way! Toward Boulevard Périphérique. There! There! The car swerved abruptly to the right. Ginny heard Keith swear for a solid ten seconds.

I love Ginny's expedition!

You want to go back to my house the long way? he asked. Or the shortcut? You have to be cold- Long way, I replied. The long way, for sure.

I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows.