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Quotes About Adventure

Que el destino no hace visitas a domicilio, que hay que ir a por él?
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Una historia de libros, de dragones y de rosas, como manda la fecha, pero sobre todo una historia de sombras y ceniza, como mandan los tiempos…
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios»
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Todo navegante que se precie tiene un iceberg en su destino.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Maybe Animal Magnetism is an animal talent agency. Wally the polar bear could be one of their animal actors." "Right! So…" I frowned. "What does it mean?" Ashley sighed. "I still don't have a clue!" Just then, Dana Hartwick walked past our table. She hurried toward the front door. Ashley and I jumped up and followed her. Solve the case first, I thought. Eat later!
~ Carol Ellis
It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...
~ Carol Emshwiller
En esta magnífica obra escrita por Carol Gaskin y Vince Hawkins, el lector viajará por los paisajes que acogieron a estos rotundos guerreros. Conocerá sus técnicas de combate, sus códigos de conducta y, sobre todo, el honor que impulsó sus vidas hasta las últimas consecuencias. Una historia apasionante que les invito a conocer
~ Carol Gaskin
If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?
~ Carol Kendall
It was fun playing with fire, but she wasn't a girl who liked to get burned.
~ Carol Rose
To be a romantic is to believe anything can happen to us.
~ Carol Shields
This is the only plot that really interests me, that is this plot which is the arc of the human life. I'm not interested in any other kind of adventure plots or Holy Grail plots or climbing the mountaintop plots. I'm interested in how that arc of aging, growing and then, of course, the shadowy end of life, the illness and eventual death.
~ Carol Shields
Brian! Brian! Michele screamed into the dark jungle of green behind her. Holding her stomach with one hand, Jo Dee propped herself up to see what Michele was hollering about. Brian streaked out of the woods, the oar raised menacingly over his head. He looked like a pirate was chasing him. Snake? he asked. No, yuck! Michele said. Look! Look . . . the clues make up a map! Treasure? asked Brian hopefully.
~ Carole Marsh
The kids all turned to look at the Mystery Girl and saw Mimi's and Papa's bottoms as they leaned into the plane looking for the lost necklace. Uh, I guess you'll meet the front of them later, Grant said.
~ Carole Marsh
As Michele lifted one bare-toed foot over the side she squealed. A crab had escaped from one of the pots and was scurrying around the bottom of the boat. Super choice, she said to Brian. Stranded on a pirate island or eaten alive by a crab.
~ Carole Marsh
Of course, he didn't know four kids were going to show up and show off their detective skills, said John. Even when they weren't supposed to, Mother added and Michele was relieved to see she was smiling.
~ Carole Marsh
As Mother headed the car for the highway, she said, You two sure got quiet in the back seat. I thought you'd be telling Jo Dee and Brian good-bye all the way across the bridge. Michele and Michael giggled. We are, they said, as they perched on their knees facing out the back window. They each gave the skull and crossbones sign and Jo Dee and Brian returned it.
~ Carole Marsh
She wanted love, adventure, and wild, fierce emotions that would batter her, as storms battered the island. I am thirteen, Christina thought, I am ready. I want it all.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
wanted is a good action book
~ Caroline B. Cooney
If I were a seagull I wouldn't have to stick around If people argued- I would fly off, swerve, wheel, dip, scream. a thousand wings of company if I have friends two strong wings of my own If I don't
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Did he think Brendan planned to snatch the laptop and throw it down a crevasse in a glacier?
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Everybody was outdoors. This was the walkingest place Brian had ever seen.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
When Venalicius had carried her far across the Land of Blue to the Land of Red, the only familiar thing had been the stars in the sky. At Flavia's house she had slept in the inner garden with Scuto, comforted by his furry warmth and by the familiar constellations overhead. But tonight she could see no stars. Tonight there was nothing to remind her of home and who she had been.
~ Caroline Lawrence
Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
~ Caroline Myss
The river is the journey of your life. You find a good woman to ride the river with, and the journey will be right nice. Just be real sure that you're listenin' to your heart and not your head when you make your choice.
~ Carolyn Brown