Quotes About Adventure

It's important to test your nerve occasionally,' she said. 'It keeps you young.

They sat in the cafes with their fresh faces and long lovely legs and waited for something outrageous to happen.

Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all, and be more than a little mad to be great, to give my life over to it. But that's just what I meant to do.

It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it.

I want to be passionate about things and feed my mind and travel the world. I'd rather be darkly and dangerously happy, like living on a knife's edge, than lose my way and forget my nature.

went off full of fire and conviction and derring-do.

don't know what it is about Africa, but champagne is absolutely compulsory here." Without

We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts—and we wanted it all.

I went out into the open country running fast, just to feel myself do it.

Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened crags of Mount Kenya and thought of how wonderful it would be to run there, a hundred miles away.

I remembered running for miles looking for an occupied warthog hole with arap Maina, and then stooping to crinkle paper outside the mouth of its den. This was what you did to call out the pig, the noise working to aggravate the animal in some way I didn't understand but rarely saw fail.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories. I could fall into any world and go without notice,

I felt a sense of anticipation of being on the verge of something interesting.

us, trailed by Cockie Birkbeck and a slight, dark-haired fellow who wasn't a bit like Bror Blixen. He turned out to be her husband, Ben. If

We met when he took Ben and me on safari. Blix always seduces the wives if he's given enough time. He likes them trembling with fear, I suppose…at the precipice of mortal danger." She raised a feathery eyebrow. "I don't think he counted on keeping me, but that was almost two years ago.

would be two days traveling, at least, and then he'd be

turned down all the lamps and padded to my room in the dark. Soundlessly, I packed my few things quickly and was on my way before midnight.

It was Lavender who drove us to the Norfolk Hotel in Jock's yellow Bugatti. He sped through the streets of Nairobi, throwing me across the leather backseat towards Jock, so that I nearly bruised myself against his clenched thighs.

Twende tu," she called out in Swahili as she buckled her helmet. I am going.

The next morning at Nairobi Station we climbed aboard the train that would take us to Mombasa, and then onto the ship that would ferry us to India for our honeymoon. I was Beryl Purves—and still a virgin.

Now come get some champagne before Denys swills it all." Denys. Though I'd only met him briefly on the street in Nairobi, for some reason my heart jumped at the sound of his name.

For better for for worse I was born a traveler, wanting to go everywhere and see everything.

On the street, it was dark in the way only Africa can be.

the boy, who