Quotes About Adventure

Hiccup the Second was gone forever, separated from the Dragon by an ocean of sky and time, and he could not come back to visit. But still, somehow, a tiny part of him was here, in the raggedy, awkward shape of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. And the Dragon Furious loved him.

On the back of the Silver Phantom I have flown so high that his wing-tips seemed to touch the very moon itself…

Toothless crossed his eyes and made a gulping noise with his throat as if he was swallowing ... AAAAAAARGH! screamed Hiccup. Toothless spat Ziggerastica onto the floor. Only j-j-joking, he said.

In my beginning is my end....there were Dragons when I was a boy.

We spent the time running free and unsupervised all over the island, and going out in boats on our own. For this was the 1970s, when the notion of childcare was to open the front door and say: 'Bye kids, come back when your hungry. Don't fall off a cliff...' -From The Writer's Map chapter First Steps

I had been immersed in the waters of the Great West Ocean, and came out a different person

I didn't mean to come here, And I didn't mean to stay, It's just where the sea wind blew me, One accidental day. ... It wasn't where I meant to be, And it wasn't where I had my start, But now I'll never leave these rain-soaked bogs Because Berk is where I left my heart!

We spent the time running free and unsupervised all over the island, and going out in boats on our own. For this was the 1970s, when the notion of childcare was to open the front door and say: 'Buy kids, come back when your hungry. Don't fall off a cliff...' -From The Writer's Map chapter First Steps

DE NINCS ITTHON HAL. – Rendben – felelte Fogatlan. – Eszem macskát.

You are small. You have red hair. You don't realize it yet, but you are about to set out on the most alarming episode of your life so far…

Hicke hade tagit liknande språng i hela sitt liv, språng undan faror, språng ut i det okända, språng utan skyddsnät. Hicke hade alltid litat på turen och på förvissningen om att världen i grund och botten var vänligt inställd till honom (s. 224, 226).

Kind of. White guy, maybe in his thirties, really big. Driving an old brown Toyota. The cops are after him now.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines… you are forced into direct experience [which] inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.

See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.

We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were meant to be lived. Life serves the risk taker...

Where do you want to go, my heart? Anywhere - anywhere, out of this world.

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

Maybe my homesickness was a form of prescience because when I look back, it's the circumstances of this very car ride that I recognize as irretrievable: the experience of driving nowhere in particular with my sister, both of us seventeen years old, the open windows causing our hair to blow wildly; that feeling of being unencumbered; that confidence that our futures would inform the way we wanted them to and our real lives were just beginning.

I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak?

The life of a soldier seemed like a climb up a stairway without any stairs, only the wooden supporting spine of preagreed ritual. Step away from that spine and anything might happen -- to you, by you.

Having someplace in mind that you were traveling to was different from not having any place.

Miss Koala, the Eastern Star, and the Simón Bolívar.

Orien," Birle protested again. "You can stay if you must." Orien's cheeks were hollow with hunger and he had little strength for anger. "But I wish you'd come. I don't know how long it would be before I could come back for you." So she followed him, since he would return for her.

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends