Quotes About Adventure

Vieni con me?» «Ovunque tu voglia, rispose Max, ricambiando il suo sguardo. E poi rovinò tutto, aggiungendo: «Qualcuno dovrà pur tenerti d'occhio.»

My partner and I escaped the chamber with nothing more than a ripped hem (Miss Holmes's), a sagging hairdo (Miss Holmes's), and a broken copper-heeled shoe (also Miss Holmes's).

The Speedwell will carry us to England," John told Sarah for at least the fiftieth time. "Even now the Mayflower is being loaded with supplies and getting ready to meet us at Southampton. Just think. Soon we will be on our way." He searched her face for the excitement that flamed higher and higher inside him.

Elder Bradford says when we sail from Holland, we will become pilgrims, people who go on a long, long journey.

Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?

and for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world.

venturing now or after nightfall. Cora thought better

If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America.

the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.

It wasn't until they were moving again that Cora realized she forgot to ask where they were headed.

She'd never been the first person to open a book.

If you want to see what this nation is all about, I always say, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America.' He slapped the wall of the boxcar as a signal. The train lurched forward.

May the next traveler not tarry and keep moving up the line, all the way to liberty.

The white man in the book, Gulliver, roved from peril to peril, each new island a new predicament to solve before he could return home. That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered—he kept forgetting what he had. That was white people all over: Build a schoolhouse and let it rot, make a home then keep straying.

If you want to see what this nation is all about, I always say, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America.

When you talk about this trip, and you will, because it was quite a journey and you witnessed many things, there were ups and downs, sudden reversals of fortune and last-minute escapes, it was really something, you will see your friends nod in recognition.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility

Verticality is such a risky enterprise.

It was the last time he raised his hand. The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you'd been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you've been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.