Quotes About Adventure

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

I wouldn't mind to go to New Mexico with you. To California with you. But mainly to New Jersey, to see the sea where you grew up.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

you're as adventurous as your secrets, as abhorrent as your secrets, as lonely as your secrets, as alluring as your secrets, as courageous as your secrets, as vacuous as your secrets, as lost as your secrets;

The deeper reasonability of seeking danger is that there is, in any event, no escaping it.

Quimper. Beyond quimper.

TUNNEL, TURNPIKE, parkway—the shore! Sixty-five minutes south and there it was!

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day

Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level – the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama – intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor.

In Spain, indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

window, with Rig trotting

For these are true boys and they draw dirt to them as if by magic.

I've never eaten a taco, and I don't plan to.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Outside, Wally, Josh, and Jake stared at each other. "You want to spend the night in the Bensons' garage?" asked Jake. "How about a one-way ticket to Texas?" moaned Josh.

Wait til Halloween! That was the battle cry these days, except that neither Caroline nor her sisters were sure exactly how Halloween would change things.

They'll have to come back home in their PJs! Beth cried happily. What if they don't wear pajamas? Caroline asked. Then they'll have to come home in their underwear, said Eddie. What if they don't sleep in their underwear? Caroline asked mischievously. Then they'll have to walk home stark naked! said Eddie, and the girls whooped.

A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others...

Latia returned, coming around the curve and stepping through the glass. Yes, it's our path, she reported. And it seems to be near the ogre fen. Oh? How do you know? Esk asked. Oh, nothing specific. Trees twisted into pretzels, boulders cracked with hairy fist marks on them, dragons slinking about as if terrified of anything on two legs. Perhaps I am mistaken.