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Quotes About Adventure

A ti no te limita ningún juramento. Si te arrepientes de tu jugada, haz otra. Aún quedan muchas partidas que jugar».
~ Holly Black
You may know the Grace kids well, but there is still much tale to tell...
~ Holly Black
When I rise, though, I strap on my new sword. It is cold and solid in my hands, heavy as a promise.
~ Holly Black
no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.
~ Holly Black
Have you never dreamed of someone coming to you and telling you that you were no mortal child, but one made of magic? Have you never dreamed about being taken from your pathetic little life to one of vast greatness?
~ Holly Black
Before I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.
~ Holly Black
Despite the deep pits that lead to oubliettes, the trees that move to make you lose your way, the ice spiders that wrap their prey in frozen gossamer, the mad king, and the curse.
~ Holly Black
And yours is to throw yourself into the mouth of the lion and hope it doesn't like your savor
~ Holly Black
Having only recently stopped playing the villain, Cardan thinks again of the winding path of decisions that bought him to this unlikely place, here with her, racing over the sky, planning to end trouble, instead of making more of it.
~ Holly Black
We ride over the cliffs and then the sea, watching mermaids leap in the spangled waves and selkies rolling along the surf. Past the fog perpetually surrounding the islands and concealing them from mortals.
~ Holly Black
I need you to tell me everything about, you know, video games and science fiction shows and movies.
~ Holly Black
To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes.
~ Holly Black
I ran anyway. And clutched his fingers as though he could drag me into a world where other kinds of games were possible. Hope lit my heart.
~ Holly Black
Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
~ Unknown
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.
~ Holly Lisle
May we see our paths clearly, may we follow them truly, and may the roads we walk always bring us back together safely from wherever we have wandered, to wherever we dare call home.
~ Holly Lisle
Dan had begun working his way around the room starting at the food wall. "Here's a little wheel to twist" he said, and an instant later, "Genna, it has water in it. Good sweet water. And when you twist the wheel, it stops and starts." And a moment later, "A little room with a privy! But" echoing noises. "Oh," he said, sounding elated, "when you press a handle, water wahses the inside of the privy. You should see this!
~ Holly Lisle
Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.
~ Homer
Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.
~ Homer
Let's Go Cracker!
~ Unknown
Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.
~ Honore de Balzac
Souvent, j'ai accompli de délicieux voyages, embarqué sur un mot ...
~ Honore de Balzac
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.
~ Lewis Thomas
I quite enjoy science fiction.
~ Lexa Doig