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Quotes About Adventure

IN THE end it took them two days, four planes, a bus ride from Reno, and everything but a canoe to get the hell home. They walked into their own house on Christmas Eve, dropped their luggage, kicked a groggy (and naked) Ethan to the couch, hit the shower, and passed out for the next twelve hours.
~ Amy Lane
After all, Collin had been voted among his friends as most likely to sneak out of his mother's house, steal a car, get laid, and get back home before the car was reported missing, the come was dry, and breakfast was served.
~ Amy Lane
You, uhm… I mean, I'm not going to step on the gas and find myself in the next county with a horse plastered on the grill, am I?
~ Amy Lane
but really, I just wanted to write shit-go-boom, then-there's-pecs-and-peen! This one's fantasy. Eat popcorn and enjoy.
~ Amy Lane
boys tasted, just because),
~ Amy Lane
The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
~ Amy Ray
Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get her out of the room long enough for him to climb out the window and down the tree. He fell, broke his leg. Ah, to be young again.
~ Amy Sherman-Palladino
Shadow vaulted from the car, and cleared the sprawled figure with one joyous leap. He found September's scent, and hop-scotched and bulldozed through snow so deep it scraped his belly. But the bloody paw prints left in his wake spelled a message of fear, hope, and determination that only good-dogs could read.
~ Amy Shojai
expose youngsters to happy, positive experiences with a variety of strangers, locations and other pets. That helps them learn that other people, places, and critters can be fun and not scary.
~ Amy Shojai
If you don't do something because it might get wrong, you'll never do anything.
~ Amy Silver
I sometimes skip meals when I travel.
~ Amy Smart
She had been strapped into a roller coaster and the car had started to move. She could hear the irreversible clacking on the tracks.
~ Amy Sohn
Mountain lion!
~ Amy Timberlake
taking risks is the religion I profess after Islam
~ AMYNE E. QASEM
Y se olvidó del «Ulises». Y de Polizón. Y de Marco Polo. Y de…, pero, ¿a qué seguir? Ninguna de estas cosas tiene nada de extraordinaro. Pues ya advertí en un principio que, al fin y al cabo, ésta era sólo la historia de un muchacho que, un buen día, creció.
~ Ana María Matute
Contraviniendo consejos abrí el balcón de la sala, solo para oler la cercanía del bosque. Para mi nunca seria peligroso. Pese a las advertencias recibidas, el bosque seguia siendo en mi imaginación y en mis sentimientos el único mundo habitable.
~ Ana María Matute
No me detendré jamás, mientras me quede vida —se decía, contemplando aquella vasta tierra despoblada y espantosamente solitaria—, hasta que ni un palmo de tierra quede oculta a mis ojos y hollada por mi pie.» «Sólo se sabía prisionero de aquel íntimo deseo, de aquel sueño, de aquella fiebre de la que nadie hacía partícipe. Pues esta sed era mayor que todas las sedes, y esta hambre, mayor que hambre alguna.
~ Ana María Matute
No me detendré jamás, mientras me quede vida —se decía, contemplando aquella vasta tierra despoblada y espantosamente solitaria—, hasta que ni un palmo de tierra quede oculta a mis ojos y hollada por mi pie.
~ Ana María Matute
Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.
~ Ana Monnar
A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.
~ Ana Monnar
For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.
~ Ana Monnar
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
~ Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
~ Anais Nin
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
~ Anais Nin