Quotes About Adventure

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My ears are screaming as Rob gives the thumbs-up sign that it's time to surface. I ascend with him slowly, like a dying soul reluctant to leave its body, and we watch the silver trail of our babbles rising above us like shooting stars.

This was, of course, the tenth or hundredth beauty of loving someone new: you were introduced to books you had not read before

What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?

You're the greatest risk I've ever taken. And the greatest reward.

Pride swelled my chest. Uncovered by the lack of makeup, the dusting of freckles on her nose made her adorable. Her body told you she was a dream to fuck, the confidence in her posture told you she'd take no shit from anyone, and the mischievous amusement in her eyes told you there would never be a dull moment.

My life was ordered. Now, it's an adventure.

because sometimes doing something wrong led to something so right.

Arriesgándose es como se consiguen las mayores recompensas.

I'm a guy who finds the expedition itself more worthwhile than the treasure. One can last forever; the other is the end of the road.

That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?

Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Ready for a new life

I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Let me fly with you.

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.

we walk the plank with strangers.

I do not fear it: I have been there.

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last.