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Quotes About Adventure

Yanko allowed me to enter a world strange and fanciful. Although I had to cope daily with real and mundane matters, I found that some of the magic of his world stayed around my shoulders.
~ Maya Angelou
The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
~ Maya Angelou
My mother wrote to me and said, "Airplanes leave here every day for Africa. If you need me, I will come." Her love and support encouraged me to dare to live my life with pizzazz.
~ Maya Angelou
I've sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land, I've seen the wonders of the world, not yet one common man.
~ Maya Angelou
Life seems to love the liver of it.
~ Maya Angelou
Hadn't I always, forever and ever, thought that life was just one great big risk for the living?
~ Maya Angelou
Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn't just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
~ Maya Banks
She'd made it a game. Hide-and-seek, Rambo style. The most epic game of hide-and-seek ever.
~ Maya Banks
There was a multitude of sexual scenarios, from a simple one-on-one couple fucking like bunnies to an outright orgy with no less than eight people joined like LEGOs.
~ Maya Banks
shut the fuck up and let's go blow the fuck out of those goatherding motherfuckers who have Nathan." Donovan cracked a smile. "Yippee ki-yay." "Fuckin' A." "Sarah's been on you about the language, huh." Garrett snarled in response and then muttered a few more F bombs for good measure. "Yeah, you better get them all out now because when you get back home, no more F words for you." "Fuck you, Van. Just fuck you.
~ Maya Banks
Done and done," P.J. said curtly. "Both front towers are clear. Giddy up, cowboys. Let's rope the goat and get back home.
~ Maya Banks
I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.
~ Meg Cabot
You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.
~ Meg Cabot
Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.
~ Meg Cabot
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
~ Meg Cabot
I've never even been to Long Island
~ Meg Cabot
It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. Oh my God, did you see her face? Becca asked between guffaws. 'There's something in my hair!' That was fantastic, Crazytop, Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. Best master plan yet.
~ Meg Cabot
Cal: "Yesterday I was stuck in a car with you for eight hours." Bastard. I didn't even sing along with the radio. Much. Me: "Yeah. And?" Cal: "Something happened." Me: "If you're referring to my driving skills, may I just say I didn't TOUCH that truck. What you felt was just the wind. We were going pretty fast. And there wasn't even a scratch. I checked." Every Boy's Got One
~ Meg Cabot
Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens....
~ Meg Cabot
I've never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I've been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I've ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I'd like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.
~ Meg Cabot
Are you a pirate?
~ Meg Cabot
Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family's pool, back when we were both seven, or I'll know you're an alien replacement and you've got the real Steph up in your mother ship!" I glared at him. "G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie," I said. "And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We're going to end up at a bad table for lunch.
~ Meg Cabot
Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.
~ Meg Cabot
always remember that on the path to happiness, sometimes there are unexpected twists and turns... but that doesn't mean they aren't the perfect twists and turns for you.
~ Meg Cabot