Quotes About Adventure

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

How could she explain to them what her swashbuckler clothes meant to her?... She saw herself - being braver and stronger than she'd ever thought she could be.

on a boat, the better.

Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked. "A bit of magic, like all goodbooks," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two." He offered her his arm.

Let's go," I said. "Go where?" "On Lori's date with Parker." Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading. "I wasn't aware it was a double date. And you're not my type.

You make terrible, terrible plans." "Hey, " I protested. "One of my plans caught you didn't it?" "Yeah, but you meant to catch Sean." He took his hand off my shoulder. I waved his concerns away, along with a cloud of gnats that had found us in the forest. "You're getting lost in the details. Keep the big picture in mind.

He tilted his head to one side, considering me, his weathered face impossible to read. But his voice was kind as he said, "There are lots of mistakes you can make. Pilots make them, and pilots die. Obstacles will kill you. The weather will kill you. But, as I'm about to show you, the airplane is your friend. The plane wants to fly.

Of course you'll win!" Chloe exclaimed. "You'll probably beat nick in that race thing-" "Boardercross," I corrected her.Chloe owned a snowboard,and thats about as far as her knowledge of the sport went. "-And you'll blow him away in the trick part." "Half pipe.And then there's the jump.

Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor, I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

It's going to be a pretty day to fly.

I love cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with all the boring parts taken out.

Anything making you feel guilty is definitely worth doing.

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

Jocelyn and I have done everything together since fourth grade: hopscotch, jump rope, charm bracelets, buried treasure, Harriet the Spying, blood sisters, crank calls, pot, coke, quaaludes.

hopscotch, jump rope, charm bracelets, buried treasure, Harriet the Spying, blood sisters, crank calls, pot, coke, quaaludes.

People had to do something to shake things up or they would've keeled over from misery and boredom. So Christ came to dinner. Witches and goblins were hiding in corners. People looked at the sky and saw angels. And my idea--my, my...plan, my-- Mick: Mission. He didn't pause in his sanding. My mission is to bring some of that back. Let people be tourists of their own imaginations.

He'd take danger over sorrow every time.

The twins had brought along Buck Rogers ray guns, but the wind turned their shots and death throes into pantomime.

I wanted to send a young Charlotte into the world to live a different life from mine.

I rang the bell. When it was clear that no one was home, I opened the door and went in.

Whenever his eyes happen to graze Mindy's, she senses shame on her behalf: because of her prettiness; because she sleeps with Lou; because she keeps telling herself this trip constitutes anthropological research into group dynamics and ethnographic enclaves, when really what she's after is luxury, adventure, and a break from her four insomniac roommates.

The fish are gaudy, easy targets, nibbling at coral. Lou has speared seven by the time he realizes Rolph hasn't killed a single one.

At Playland, Eddie and the little boys had ridden potato sacks down long wooden slides, getting friction burns where a knee or an elbow dragged against the wood. The fun-house floor was pocked with holes through which loud blasts of air (fired by some hidden wiseacre) were meant to lift girls' skirts. Ingrid had a horror of these blasts, and she clung to Eddie, laughing.

You know what?" His breath was warm against my cheek. There are a lot of stupid things to do, but I really want to do the stupidest thing possible." What's that?" I want to kiss you.