Quotes About Adventure

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

What I want does exist if I dare to find it.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make mistakes, make a mess, get it wrong. Read everything, and get out and be in life.

Reading is where the wild things are.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I'm warm.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.

where will we go next, when there are no more wildernesses?

I came to this city to escape.

Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin sized world?

The curious are always in some danger.

Not so. Fold up the maps and put away the globe. If someone else had charted it, let them. Start another drawing with whales at the bottom and cormorants at the top, and in between identify, if you can, the places you have not found yet on those other maps, the connections obvious only to you. Round and flat, only a very little has been discovered.

our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.

Fold up the maps and put away the globe. If someone else had charted it, let them. Start another drawing with whales at the bottom and cormorants at the top, and in between identify, if you can, the places you have not found yet on those other maps, the connections obvious only to you. Round and flat, only a very little has been discovered.

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map.

travelling the world and the seven seas

The maze. Find your own way through and you shall win your heart's desire. Fail and you will wander for ever in these unforgiving walls.

It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

We gamble with the hope of winning, but it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us

I libri sono per me una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, sono una casa, nel senso che, così come apri una porta, apri un libro e ci entri.

Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds.

He liked city walking. He didn't want to have to go to that place called countryside to take a walk. He wanted to stuff his hands in his pockets, set his internal compass vaguely east or south and wander till he was tired enough to get the bus home.