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Quotes About Adventure

If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She brings back these costumes and you have to wear them. Most recently we were dressed as rabbits. The odd thing is that she would really get into it. We'd have sex in these rabbit suits and she would squeal and stamp her feet.
~ Cormac McCarthy
No todo el mundo necesita tener una razón para ir a alguna parte.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The road to infinity may well unravel fresh rules as it goes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Did you want her to kill herself? No. I wanted her to be free. Do you think that's freedom? Maybe not. But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
So if you get the impression from time to time that we're sort of winging it here so be it. The first thing is to locate the narrative line. It doesnt have to hold up in court. Start splicing in your episodics. Your anecdotals. You'll figure it out. Just remember that where there's no linear there's no delineation. Try
~ Cormac McCarthy
Suttree stalked off to find the boy. I just come from there, the boy said. Well get your ass up cause you're going again. They aint no need to cuss about it, the boy said. It Sunday and all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Then all rode on and none looked back.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said one time that just because the world was spinning didnt mean that you couldnt get off. There's
~ Cormac McCarthy
If we should meet again I hope there will be something in the way of a wateringhole where I can stand you a round. Perhaps show you about the place. Look for a tall and somewhat raffish looking chap in a tailored robe.
~ Cormac McCarthy
a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Let's go. You can sleep in the winter.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto
~ Cormac McCarthy
The boat is going to Texas. Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
~ Cornelia Funke
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.
~ Cornelia Funke
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.
~ Cornelia Funke
She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.
~ Cornelia Funke
Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
~ Cornelia Funke
Please, she whispered as she opened the book, please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away
~ Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke
~ Cheeseface.
Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!
~ Cornelia Funke