Quotes About Adventure

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.

We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

If I could have been a cowgirl, I might have never written a word.

As we age, many of us who are privileged . . . those with some assured place and pattern in their lives, with some financial security---are in danger of choosing to stay right where we are, to undertake each day's routine, and to listen to our arteries hardening. . . . Instead, we should make use of our security, our seniority, to take risks, to make noise, to be courageous, to become unpopular.

Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!" "Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.

I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.

She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.

I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel," Nancy told Captain Rossland.

NANCY DREW began peeling off her garden gloves as she ran up the porch steps and into the hall to answer the ringing telephone. She picked it up and said, "Hello!

Snoopy Ned Nickerson went to the cupboard To find Nancy Drew a clue. But when he got there, Each cupboard was bare And so there was no clue for Drew.

Suddenly Nancy spotted the mysterious Arab

If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.

Go on,"Lexy said. "What do you want to be today?

Perhaps, and this is where my breath catches in my throat, perhaps she let herself fall. The day was hers to choose and perhaps in that treetop moment when she looked down and saw the yard, the world, her life, spread out below her, perhaps she chose to plunge toward it headlong. Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose, instead, a single moment in the air.

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it

I love making up stories. I love getting lost in other worlds and being with other characters. I love the way I think I'm in control and then the characters and stories take on a life of their own. I love how I can incorporate my own faith into the stories I write. Writing is both discovery and creating and with each book I do that. Discover and create. It can be an adventure some days, a nightmare others. I also like that I can do this wearing ugly clothes.

Through his stamps he had become an eager and gregarious armchair traveler, a man with a spyglass at the window, even a raconteur. But he wouldn't ever really go anywhere, would he? It isn't in him to leave. It's the fact of the village behind him, its Norman stones and ancient mortar, its know quantities?this is what sets him free. For him, at least, just imagining the world is quite enough, as much as he can bear, in fact.

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.