Quotes About Adventure

Así habían empezado a andar por un París fabuloso, dejándose llevar por los signos de la noche,....deteniéndose en las placitas confidenciales para besarse en los bancos o mirar las rayuelas, los ritos infantiles del guijarro y el salto sobre un pie para entrar en el Cielo.

Cuando abra la puerta y me asome a la escalera, sabré que abajo empieza la calle; no el molde ya aceptado, no las casas ya sabidas, no el hotel de enfrente: la calle, la viva magnolia, donde las caras van a nacer cuando las mire, cuando avance un poco más, cuando con los codos y las pestañas y las uñas me rompa minuciosamente contra la pasta del ladrillo de cristal, y juegue mi vida mientras avanzo paso a paso para ir a comprar el diario de la esquina

Nunca iremos a Costa Rica?

Por qué decís: peligros metafísicos? También hay ríos metafísicos Horacio, vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.

il faut tenter de vivre.

I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all directions...

Pero más puede la curiosidad que el castigo

Punky had shown me how to make friends, how to be free, and I was going to spread my wings and fly.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

If this was another kind of story, I'd tell you about the sea

I'm teaching English in Japan next year," she said matter-of-factly, "It's going to be amazing." Not "I'm thinking about..." or "I've applied but..." I AM.

One Ring. Like stumbling into

Dejah Thoris.

He read The Lord of the Rings for what I'm estimating the millionth time, one of his greatest loves and greatest comforts since he'd first discovered it, back when he was nine and lost and lonely and his favorite librarian had said, Here, try this, and with one suggestion changed his life. Got through almost the whole trilogy, but then the line "and out of Far Harad black men like half-trolls" and he had to stop, his head and heart hurting too much.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to...

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.

You are Entering the Red Zone. Proceed at Own Risk. When in Doubt Run.

Wolgast recalled when he'd come down here with his friends to buy candy and comic books. Back then, a spinning wire rack had stood by the front door: Tales from the Crypt, Fantastic Four, the Dark Knight series, Wolgast's favorite.

suspending her body out over the ditch like a piano swinging from a crane.

As the buck darted below the drop-off, she raised her blade and launched herself into the air.

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back. She wondered what she would do.