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Quotes About Adventure

Getting bored is not allowed! -Eloise Age 6
~ Hilary Knight
I ABSOLUTELY looooove the Plaza!- Eloise age 6
~ Hilary Knight
I picked up a snake once. In Italy." "Why did you do that?" "For a bet." "Was it poisonous?" "We didn't know. That was the point of the bet." "Did it bite you?" "Of course." "Why of course?" "It wouldn't be much of a story, would it? If I'd put it down unharmed, and away it slid?
~ Hilary Mantel
Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.
~ Hilary Mantel
I believe it's fine to give up books even after a page; there's so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain?
~ Hilary Mantel
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
~ Hilary Mantel
For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.
~ Hilary Mantel
I am willing, though, to tear up the timetable and take some new routes; and I know I shall find, at some unlikely terminus, a hand that is meant to rest in mine.
~ Hilary Mantel
He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.
~ Hilary McKay
He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.
~ Hilary McKay
Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose.
~ Hilary McKay
Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.
~ Hilary McKay
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
~ Hilary Swank
I love to travel. I'm a curious person.
~ Hilary Swank
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
~ Hillaire Belloc
I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.
~ Hillary Clinton
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
~ Hillary Clinton
Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail
~ Hiro Mashima
My Heart is Bounding! I can fly anywhere as long as I'm with the Nakama I Love!!!" ~Leevy
~ Hiro Mashima
Do fairies have tails? More than that, do fairies even exist? Nobody knows for sure. So this guild is like them, an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure.
~ Hiro Mashima
When he left Japan, he told his friends that he was going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda and the Abominable Snowman, in that order. Presumably the panda and the Snowman are still waiting, because after only four days on Lubang, Suzuki found Onoda and persuaded him to meet with a delegation from Japan, which Suzuki undertook to summon.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.
~ Unknown
Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.
~ Holly Black
I raise a plastic glass. "To family." "And Faerieland," says Taryn, raising hers. "And pizza," says Oak. "And stories," says Heather. "And new beginnings," says Vivi. Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. "And scheming great schemes." To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.
~ Holly Black