Quotes About Adventure

Course I'm scared. I'm always scared when we go somewhere we've not been before. It's good to be scared. Keeps you alive." - Ollie, The Enemy

All children in adventure books have to be orphans.

It ain't going to happen, babes, 'said Dognut. 'I know what you're thinking, but we ain't gonna be overwhelmed. We can do this. 'No, we can't.' 'Yes, we can.' Dognut kissed her fiercely, the briefest of kisses, and then he raised his sword above his head. 'Let's do this. You and me, girl, let's take it to the,! Dog nut and Courtney against the world!

Books were a gateway into an alternative universe. They were magic. A book could hold anything inside it.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

There is no point and that there doesn't have to be a point. We don't need a reason. As long as it's fun.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act..It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Two or three Months rolled away, after this Accident, without offering any new Adventure to our fair Visionary; when her Imagination, always prepossessed with the same fantastic Ideas, made her stumble upon another Mistake, equally absurd and ridiculous.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

You might hear about "taking chances" – the real smartcraft is in "making chances..."

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

School-stories might as well be called friend-stories, really, that just happened to be set in boarding schools.

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

This edition of The Motorcycle Diaries, the notes describing a journey made without hesitation, aboard the noisy motorcycle La Poderosa II (which gave out halfway, but only after transmitting to the adventure a joyous impulse we, too, receive), free as the wind, with the sole purpose of getting to know the world, is dedicated to people whose youth is not merely sequential, but wholehearted and spiritual.

You can't wait for life to fall into place, sweetie," Bliss said, squeezing Susan's head between her hands. "Don't worry about the direction. Just move.

Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.

some of the best sex I can barely remember.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones

Come on baby, show me what that loaded gun is for