Quotes About Adventure

My brother, Stephen, has always said I live in a world of fairy tales. That is laughable, though, because the books I read contain all sorts of murder and mayhem, usually committed with revolvers or knives, and once even a machete.

You know you're an Arizona native when you "hug" a cactus only once in your lifetime.

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop and read it.

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

I think variety is the key to the whole thing, and the reason so many marriages go stale is that they just do the same thing over and over.

Liza, me gustaría fugarme contigo, que nos casáramos por ahí, maldita sea.

Seguíamos encontrando cosas de Nueva York que enseñarnos; era como si estuviéramos viendo la ciudad por primera vez.

And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

It felt a little as if we'd found a script that had been written just for us, and we were reading through the beginning quickly [...] hurrying so we could get to the part that mattered, whatever that was to be.

Let's make this a slow ride, shall we?" The deep purr of her voice brought a sassy grin to his face. The long slant of his eyes grew languid. "You have the reins, cher. You can whip me with them if you like.

You should always play with and not according to the rules, he says, because a life with no danger in it is not a life.

You should always play with and not according to the rules, because a life with no danger in it is no life at all.

I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

I was in love with a whirlwind and I must spin a net big enough to catch it

You wild, dear creatures!

We travel to see the world in new ways, to feel ourselves fully in the world, immersed in the experience of discovery.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. —Kobi Yamada

Etty saw Rowan, daughter of Robin Hood, lifting her green kirtle, her brown braid lashing like a wildcat's tail as she tried to run.

Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

drove through the labyrinth of roads into the heart of the U. Mass.–Amherst campus until she found a parking spot near the pond.

Two different kinds of people exist: Those who wade cautiously into the shallows and those who throw themselves headlong into the roaring surf.

Life isn't all about money, Keely. Remember what you and Isabelle used to call yourselves? Surfside Sisters? Because you would both leap into life instead of dawdling at the edge, waiting, until it was safe.

She always gave herself some time to browse the library shelves to check out new reads she hadn't heard about and wasn't sure she would want to stick with. Like agreeing to only coffee on a first date, rather than an entire meal.