Quotes About Adventure

The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.

Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living. Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts. That is the only way you can know you have lived.

Here's what I've learned: When you stand at the lip of something, you're already there.

Never underestimate the power of the out-on-a-limb gesture.

Kim Gruenenfelder

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

Tink's Panties!

Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks

A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel's End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there's the punch line.

She quoted First Lady Eleanor Franklin: "Do at least one thing each day that scares you.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!

When I ride a horse, it just makes my blood wiggle! [Cole, age 5]

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

It was us, I thought. Jamie and me. We had fallen down a rabbit hole, fallen into Susan's house, and nothing made sense, not at all, not anymore.

People used to draw dragons on the edges of old maps. When the world hadn't been fully explored, mapmakers imagined dragons living at the far ends.

shook my head. Bombs fell from the sky. Boys fell from trees. Anything might happen. Anytime.

The Swiss Family Robinson.

Think Epic. Imagine Awesome.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

But tell me truly, milovidnost, had I asked you to elope with me that night, would you not have followed me to the ends of the earth? (Jack) I wouldn't have followed you to the end of the corridor. (Lorelei)

Life at sea is hard. And often deadly. (Morgan) Then why do you do it? (Serenity) Because we love it. (Morgan) A glutton for punishment, aren't you? (Serenity)

But I– (Jake) But nothing, Captain. Heaven forbid you leave the helm for more than a minute. Anything could happen. God could toss down a lightning bolt and set fire to the ship. A sea monster could rise up from the depth of the ocean and swallow us whole. Or, dare I say it? The weight of male egos may be so great that it plops a hole right in the center of deck and we sink from it! (Serenity)

You have no idea of the things I've seen. I was a pirate–once. I'm not denying that, nor do I make excuses for it. I was young, angry, and desperate. Three things that make a most lethal combination. I wanted blood from the Brits and I wanted blood from my enemy. (Morgan)