Quotes About Adventure

It is my dearest hope that one day I shall be the one to discover the GUT-the Grand Unified Tale, the one which will bind together all our Theorems and Laws, leaving out not one Orphan Girl or Youngest Son or Cup of Life and Death. Not one Descent or Ascent, not one Riddle or Puzzle or Trick. One perfect golden map that can guide any soul to its desire and back again. I will be the one to do it, I know it. I hope I know it. I know I hope it.

he had not guessed how much of the body of a Quest was simply walking .

You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men—and exceedingly stupid men, usually—do.

where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.

What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map

I could not say what creeps and whispers through the branches and down the threaded Road, but I hear it, and I am not afraid.

You haven't met your Way yet. It hasn't so much as kissed your hand! You haven't even at the door of the hall where your Way dances. But look here, look see, I've got them, I've caught them up just for you, a big bouquet of anywhere you want to go. Just pick a bloom, my girl, hold it to your pretty nose.

Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!

The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.

This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is," Decibel said with total delight.

You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.

Az ?rhajók borzasztóan hasznos és kellemes holmik, de szigorúan véve nem szükségesek a városban mászkáláshoz.

Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!

At the end of every adventure, you must ask if it was ever really your adventure at all. Perhaps you were only an obstacle in someone else's quest.

I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.

So this guy walks into a dragon's lair and he says why the long tale? HAR HAR BUDDY says the dragon FUCK YOU.

I suppose because it's boring to keep telling stories where people just get born and grow up and get married and die. So they add strange things in, to make it interesting when a person is born, more satisfying when they get married, sadder when they die.

Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.

But old women faced certain dangers in Fairyland, such as breaking a hip while riding a wild velocipede, or having everyone do what you say just because you had wrinkles.

First Law of Heroics." The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. "Someone has to tell you it's impossible, or the Quest can't go on.

September suddenly realized something. "But Ell, Orrery begins with O! How can you know so much about it?" The Wyverary soared high, his neck stretching into a long red ribbon, full of words and pies and relief and flying. "I'm growing up!" he cried.

First Law of Heroics." The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. "Someone has to tell you it's impossible, or the Quest can't go on. Your friend has volunteered herself as a Non-Euclidean Companion, which is also necessary to proceed to the next stage.

Narrators may go where they please.

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.