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Quotes About Adventure

she felt that she had been able to push the boundaries, technically and narratively. And what was the point of making games if you weren't going to do that?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The Call of the Wild
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You think how much these books are like life. Except in Choose Your Own Adventure, you can move backward, and you can choose something else if you don't like how the story turned out, or if you just want to know the other possible outcomes. You would like to do that, but you can't. Life moves relentlessly forward.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The best way to get to Margarettown is to 'try' to get lost.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting." The world seemed filled with interesting books to read, interesting plays and movies to see, interesting games to play, interesting food to taste, and interesting people to have sex with and sometimes even to fall in love with. To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Ah, but Sadie Green was a gamer! In a game, if a sign warns you not to open a certain door, you will definitely open that door. If it doesn't work out, you can always go back to the save point and start again. Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A Trip to the Beach By Maya Tamerlane Fikry Teacher: Edward Balboni, Alicetown High School Grade 9
~ Gabrielle Zevin
most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
En su opinión, con solo que la gente diera una oportunidad a muchas cosas, se resolverían la mayoría de sus problemas.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It's like Oz and Kansas, if Dorothy could switch between them the whole time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Dallas–Fort Worth airport to Grapevine, Texas
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maybe an old favorite like Old School by Tobias Wolff, though his time would certainly be better spent on something new.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance. Amelia
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
He pulled back his hood, unveiling a face of burning, satanic, male beauty. Alice held her breath, enthralled, feeling the resounding slam of some fateful premonition. 'Lucien Knight.' One look erased any lingering doubt in her mind who he was. He had the bold, patrician features of a dashing adventurer and silver eyes that glittered like diamonds. The glossy jet of his hair set off his sun-bronzed complexion and the wicked, white gleam of his smile.
~ Gaelen Foley
His insolent gaze traveled over her body. "I hear you're quite the little saint." "Compared to whom? Caro?" His cynical smirk widened to a genuine smile at her retort. "I daresay you're having a bit of an adventure, aren't you?" "An ordeal is more like it." "Well, you seem to have come through it all in fine spirit." He pressed away from the door and sauntered toward her.
~ Gaelen Foley
Do you know where she lives?" "Could get there blindfolded." "Did he just blush?" Talbert asked Marc as Lucien strode over to his black stallion and swung up into the saddle. "I heard that," he retorted.
~ Gaelen Foley
The things we do to eat! Running from scorpions the size of small dogs, dodging 10 foot long rattlesnakes and squashing monster spiders - all in a days work
~ Gail
Being in Manhattan was like running headlong toward your own life, or finding out you could fly. To turn away from it would have seemed the failure of a chance not taken.
~ Gail Caldwell
The history of American women is all about leaving home—crossing
~ Gail Collins
Kallista nodded. "Come, Torchay. Seems we should pack." They sailed upriver with the dawn. "What's wrong with you?" Someone had hold of Stone's hair, shaking his head as if it were a sackful of kittens to be drowned.
~ Gail Dayton
Why make waves if you don't know how to surf?
~ Gail Giles