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Quotes About Adventure

all that mattered was that she was with you and she was happy and you were off on some grand adventure together.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We tramped over, and as we stepped from the thick trees, we all stopped and stared. Then Corey raced forward, arms raised. "It's a road. Oh my God. A road!" He dropped to his knees by the roadside. "Oww." Daniel helped him back to his feet. "The knee is good," I said. "But the knee is not completely healed. Be careful." "It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered.
~ Kelley Armstrong
It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?" "That'd be nice." "Yeah, until you raced out, screaming for help, and got mowed down by a logging truck." He walked into the middle and turned, waving his arms. "It's a road!" I patted his back. "It's a lovely road.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Corey--who'd been walking ahead with Sam--let out a whistle. He gestured to a tractor trailer, pulling out of what looked like a parking lot. We jogged up to Corey and Sam. "Please don't be closed for the season," Corey murmured as we picked up speed. "Please don't be staffed by witches and demons, lying in wait for us. Please, please, please, just give us a break.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I live in the park," I said. "I'm going to see a lot of wild animals." "Still, mountain lions…Never seen one myself." He slid a sidelong look my way. "Think you could fix that?" Like hell , I thought, but just kept walking.
~ Kelley Armstrong
What do you say I come over tonight? We can take a walk, look for big cats, watch the stars come out…" I laughed. "Do lines like that ever work?" He only smiled. "Can't blame a guy for trying.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'm going higher first," I said, "to look around for Annie." "Good idea." I called down to Daniel to say what we were doing. Rafe was already two branches above me. I scrambled up after him. The faster I went, the faster he did, and I thought it was just coincidence until he grinned down at me.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I didn't even notice I'd caught up until I was right beside him and he was leaning around the tree, smiling at me. "Gotcha," I said. "Uh, no. I stopped." He waved overhead and I realized we were as high as we could safely go. "Damn," I said.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Annie used to have a motorcycle, he said, and she'd taught him to ride it. He also knew how to hot-wire one. I wasn't asking how. Like I said, his life experience wasn't ours.
~ Kelley Armstrong
So Maya will grow up to be an amazing healer who can change into a killer cat. Daniel and Sam will roam the country hunting criminals and demons. Hayley and Nicole will divide their time between recording platinum albums and winning gold medals in swimming. And me? I'll be the cute, funny guy sitting at the bar, hoping for a good brawl to break out." "In other words, exactly where you were already headed," Hayley said. We all laughed at that, even Corey.
~ Kelley Armstrong
They aren't following us," Corey said. " Why aren't they following us?" "They know it won't be hard to find four kids tearing through the woods," Rafe said. "Daniel's right. We need to split up. Better than that, we need a target. One person to make more noise than all the others put together. That'd be me." A wry smile my way. "I'm good at causing trouble.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I bet if we bolted, we could lose them in ten seconds." "Don't tempt me," I muttered. He grinned and put out his hand to help me over a muddy patch. I crossed, then called back a warning to the others. Daniel seconded the warning and pointed out the mud. Hayley still slid and fell.
~ Kelley Armstrong
A jerk on my harness made me look up sharply as Daniel adjusted the rope, preparing to let me belay down. The look on his face told me who'd won. "Damn," I said. "Seriously?" "By a fingertip," Rafe said. "You need to grow longer arms.
~ Kelley Armstrong
You suppose that you could walk around, but your feet tell you that the map leads directly through the briar wall, and you can't stray from the path that has been laid out for you. Remember what happened to the little girl, your great-grandmother, in her red woolen cape. Maps protect their travelers, but only if the travelers obey the dictates of their maps. This is what you have been told.
~ Kelly Link
No one ever built a fort because the world was safe.
~ Kelly Link
It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they decide not to go
~ Ken Follett
It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.
~ Ken Follett
You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.
~ Ken Follett
pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.
~ Ken Follett
I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.
~ Ken Follett
estaban locos por los aeroplanos, y soñaban con ser pilotos.
~ Ken Follett
proudly: "I went to
~ Ken Follett
sure their gamble
~ Ken Follett
In dog philosophy it was always better to go somewhere than to be left behind
~ Ken Follett