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Quotes About Adventure

Nollie's having plotted their course with her fleX GPS turned out to be unnecessary. The directions all the way to the Nevada border at Wendover, Utah, came down to: "cross George Washington Bridge, then turn right.
~ Lionel Shriver
So where could they be going? Do they even know themselves? They are seeking adventure. They are looking for hours of intense suffering and happiness. For battle and conquest. Far from the refuges and popular summits, they want to revive in themselves the doubts and excitements of the first mountain pioneers.
~ Unknown
Mountaineering
~ Unknown
Lisa Ann Sandell
~ Unknown
Don't ever scare me like that again, swinging on the rope." "I won't. I'll find a new way," she teased.
~ Unknown
St. Brigid's Island perched like a jagged accident above the water, all grass and rock, no beach to ease the passage of a boat, no harbor to shelter it once there. Twelve miles west of Ireland, at times nearly impossible to get to and just as deadly to try to leave. It was the whim of the wind and the swelling sea that determined who landed there and who was let go.
~ Unknown
Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex. —SINGLE-MINDED
~ Unknown
He gently takes the lead, and I trail behind him up the narrow spiral stairway at the back of the kitchen. His hand is warm, and holding it feels like the easiest thing in the world. Too easy. I'm going to get myself in trouble.
~ Unknown
Honestly, are there any other words in the whole damned English language quite as seductive as, 'the circus is in town'?
~ Unknown
Life is the grandest adventure one can go on, isn't it?' said the giant kindly (he seemed to be a very friendly giant). 'What else could a person ask for than just to be alive?' Will knew exactly what else a person could ask for. 'Monsters,' he said. 'And cake.
~ Lisa Graff
Why the hell not?
~ Lisa Graff
Sometimes on the way to your dream, you get lost and find a better one.
~ Lisa Hammond
If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.
~ Lisa Jewell
the lightness of having nothing to do and nowhere to be. She thought of all the things she could do once she'd finished this chapter of her life, all the books she could read and the picnics she could eat and the funfairs and shopping trips and holidays and parties.
~ Lisa Jewell
I'm not sure, any more, I'm not sure about anything. But I'd happily try it. Try anything really, just to get back to myself.
~ Lisa Jewell
For days and days on end they could act like everything was normal, like they were on a lovely little adventure together. And then the reality of their situation would crash through the façade and they'd emerge like a straggle of pile-up survivors crawling from the wreckage.
~ Lisa Jewell
Ellie's mum always said that May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.
~ Lisa Jewell
letting life show her her journey rather than imposing a journey onto her life
~ Lisa Jewell
of walking about with a shaved head, he walked past Whackadoo. He saw neither Romola nor Joey, but it didn't matter. Just the very act of allowing himself to be seen in this new and somewhat alarming guise was exciting
~ Lisa Jewell
think we're almost there," she said. "Think yellow," she added with an exaggerated wink. The boys let
~ Lisa Jewell
But maybe I'll end up doing something else unconventional. Who knows. And I really hope that if I do, and as long as I'm not hurting anyone or doing anything, like, illegal, that everyone would accept it, you know, just carry on loving me anyway.
~ Lisa Jewell
Having regrets is the only sign that you've done anything interesting with your life.
~ Lisa Kleypas
But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?" "They're ravished in haylofts?" she inquired hopefully.
~ Lisa Kleypas