Quotes About Adventure

Reading a good book can be like being on vacation!

Vacations often go to fast! Enjoy every minute!

Retirement, a time to enjoy life! A time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, how you want to do it.

Everybody goes around missing all the best stuff because they don't want anything bad to happen. But then when something bad wants to happen it just does. Anyway. No matter how careful you're being.

I'd tell you to be careful, except for two things. One, it wouldn't do any good anyhow. And two, I think we tell each other that too much. Be careful. Don't get hurt. Don't take changes. Don't try anything. Don't feel. Might as well be telling each other not to be alive at all. Boils down to the same thing.

Even if we had to go back, I decided it was worth it to ride that bus all the way out here. It was worth it just for Natalie to see the windmills. Even if she never saw anything like this again. Maybe at least she could hang on to the idea that there's something better out there, somewhere.

They're right next door." "We can still hike out down the Angels Landing

curiosity has its glue-like qualities.

Run, Steven. Run fast and far.

I'm just floating along in this state of elation because all of life's normal responsibilities and irritations are gone. It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new.

If you have a bucket list, get on it. And if you don't, get on that. Get one. And then, get on it. Nobody lives forever.

Well, child, I'd tell you to be careful, except for two things. One, it wouldn't do any good anyhow. And two, I think we tell each other that too much. Be careful. Don't get hurt. Don't take chances. Don't try anything. Don't feel. Might as well be telling each other not to be alive at all. Boils down to the same thing.

The other part of it was that sometimes you just have to take a chance on something, because otherwise you definitely end up with nothing. You just have to be a brave girl sometimes, like I told the baby a thousand times that night.

he wouldn't meet August's eyes. "Um . . ." he said after a time. "We'll be too far away." "I've got my camera with the super zoom." Seth buckled the belt and threw it back on the picnic table with a huge, jangly clank. Then he took August by the arm and led him around to the rear door of the motor home.

It's hard to find a particular place when you don't one hundred percent know you're even looking for it,

robe and opened the door.

But there was a definite sense that all bets were off now. The line she had so carefully toed all her life was just a smudge in the dirt behind her. Bea did not feel inclined to look back. Life was new. Not good. Just new.

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.