Quotes About Adventure

Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt down bad guys with Stephanie Plum. Amazing things can happen when you read.

No, you misunderstand, Madame Prime Minister. I'm not just good at staying alive. I'm also really, really good at drugging people. - Grace

The only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And locked in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

a spy's life isn't about never taking chances. It's about taking chances that are worth the risk.

Switzerland didn't exactly work out. Neither did France. Or Norway." "Three schools?" Hale asked. "Well, technically, five schools—three countries.

I'll catch something to cook in the morning. I don't think we're far from the river. There will be fish." "You can do that?" Logan eyed her. Maddie eyed him back, a little offended. "I caught a Russian killer." Logan ate another berry. "Point taken.

And if you see a bear -" "It's more afraid of me than I am of it," Logan filled in, but Maddie stopped short. "No." She shook her head and looked at him like he might be a moron, which he probably was, "It's not afraid of you. It's a bear! So back away slowly and hope it doesn't want to kill you. Because it can without breaking a sweat." Logan studied her face, then nodded slowly. "Killer bears. Check.

Dear Logan, Someday I'm going to write a book: How to Not Die in Alaska -- A Girl's Guide to Fashionable Survival.

Madeleine Rose Manchester had absolutely no intention of invading the White House. But she knew seven different ways she could do it if she'd wanted to. After all, Logan had lived there less than a year, and already he and Maddie had found four tunnels, two pseudo-secret passageways, and a cabinet near the kitchen that smelled faintly of cheese and only partially blocked an old service elevator that really wasn't as boarded up as everybody thought.

What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a her**ne, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: A Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be." Thunderous, raucous applause filled the student section. Liz smiled and wiped her eyes. She leaned close to the microphone. "And, most of all, she is my sister.

Beyond the wall, the sea stretches out, dark and vast, and I know why – once upon a time – it would have been easy to think the world was flat.

Keep an eye out for caves," she told Logan. "And sometimes you can crawl into the big trees, nest in around the roots. But we have to be careful." "Because of bears?" Logan asked. "And wolves," she said. "Wolves like places like that." "Oh. There are wolves now. Yay," Logan said.

That's the thing about being a criminal," Kat told her. "Nothing ever goes according to plan.

I have never been one to fall when I can jump.

I ease out my third-story window and drop onto the brick ledge below, but I'm not even a little bit afraid. I should be, I know. If I were normal. If I had good sense. If I were sane.

When the car stopped, Kat and Hale got out. Kat walked quickly, crunching gravel beneath her feet, and ran her hand through her hair—the very gesture she'd seen her father make a thousand times. . . . Right before he agreed to do something stupid.

Not if I save you first.

Run. It's been what people have been telling me to do all year, and now I think it's time I really listen. … Please don't look for me. Please don't worry. And most of all, please don't think of this as me of running away but of running towards. … Now I'm going to leave her, and spend this summer trying to find them. I'll be back. And when I am, I promise I'll have answers.

Dear Logan, Alaska's really big. And really pretty. It's also really lonely. Sometimes I ask Dad why we're here and he says it's for our health. Or because I'm almost old enough that he was going to have to "beat the boys off with sticks" if we'd stayed in DC. I don't think that's it, though. But if it is, he's found the place where the stick-to-boy ration is probably the highest on earth. Maddie

we saw a man walking in our midst who would have made James Bond feel insecure. Indiana Jones would have looked like a momma's boy compared to the man in the leather jacket with two days' growth of beard who walked to where my mother stood and then—horror of horrors—winked at her.

They hotwired Cam's bed," Abby said with a shrug. "Of course they did," my mother said.

The odds of bringing her back alive increase by twenty-seven percent if Bex and Macey go. - Liz

When I was twelve I broke my leg jumping off the wall between Canada and Germany.

Let's have a baby, Abs. We've taken down terrorist cells. Surely we can handle one little baby. Spies