Quotes About Adventure

Quinn Quicksilver

My plan was to drive to Peptoe, Arizona, and track down the three men who found me in a bassinet

No one'll break your heart faster or into more pieces than a Sherpa will.

He looks back along the trail, in the direction from which he and the other foxes came.

science fiction

by woods beyond the yard.

I didn't mind dying—and being reunited with Stormy, whether in Heaven or in the unknown great adventure she calls "service"—but not until the threat to the children had been identified and met.

On the road again, past the jerkwater called Warm Springs, heading toward Tonopah on federal highway 6

Just then he gets a text message from Ace of Diamonds with a destination. He

heads east, from which every tomorrow always comes.

Which would not surprise me. But a role in what?

You know, Katie, farther north in the archipelago, there are islands clustered closer together.

because real life was plotted like Tolkien on methamphetamine

A lot of the time, I don't much care where I go, just so I go somewhere.

MY LIFE BEFORE JACOB'S LADDER, ISLAND LIFE, LITERATURE, and PARANORMAL

In the dream, I suddenly found myself in the night, floating above the house, then gliding over the woods

Needless to say, I had not enjoyed such an exhilarating dream in decades.

a world of wonder beyond.

Libby, we've got to get out of here, off the island.

On Books: Around her, thousands of times and places, people and worlds, from Mars to Egypt to Yoknapatawpha County, were closed up in the bindings of books like the shine trapped under the tarnished veneer of a brass lamp. She could almost feel them waiting to dazzle with the first turn of a page, come alive with brilliant colors and pungent odors and delicious aromas, with laughter and sobbing and cries and whispers. Books were packaged dreams.

encounter on Aguereberry Point, Oxenwald is on the move again after less than an hour.

books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.