Quotes About Adventure

WATCH, the Rider said. YOU WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS BEYOND THE NEXT HILL. SEE THEM ALL.

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules. He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.

If the journey itself is indeed the most important piece, rather than the destination itself, then I traveled not to avoid duty—but to seek it.

This is the Kitsen Unity Ship Swims Against the Current in a Stream Reflecting the Sun

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

You never know how much you'll like something until you try it out.

Journey Before Destination.

Go into the building, search out the Returned who lives in it, and run around in circles squeaking as loudly as you can. Don't let anybody catch you. Oh, and destroy as much furniture as you can.

A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.

Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out something important. Should a strange old man of questionable sanity show up at your door – suggesting that he is your grandfather and that you should accompany him upon some quest of mystical import – you should flatly refuse him. Don't take his candy either.

We take to the skies, Stormblessed," Lunamor said. "We will walk no more in coming days. This is the end.

Claim the stars, Spensa," he said.

Funny, isn't it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren't many stories about the kids who say, 'Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I'm glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.

And we started flying. Sloooooowly. "Yippee?" M-Bot said. "It is kind of a letdown, isn't it?

A party. What was I going to do at a party? I had a feeling I'd have been much better off in the water with the sharks.

Journey before destination," Dalinar said. "It cannot be a journey if it doesn't have a beginning.

Do what you can," Kelsier said. "I'll seek these people to the west." "They won't help." "I'm not going to ask for their help," Kelsier said, then smiled. "I'm going to rob them.

Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.

Err on the side of awesome.

You couldn't live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.

Waxillium had seen some odd things in his life. He'd visited koloss camps in the Roughs, even been invited to join their numbers. He'd met and spoken with God himself and had received a personal gift from Death. That did not prepare him for the sight of a pretty young woman's chest turning nearly transparent, one of the breasts splitting and offering up the hilt of a small handgun.