Quotes About Adventure

Der ungenannte Wunsch, von Leben und Land nie erfüllt, jetzt Reisender, segle vorwärts, zu suchen und zu finden.

That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion.

From A Ride Along the Great Wall, Page 112:

This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together.

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you?

There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.' Kettricken smiled.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!

Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.

It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.

Dragon droppings?" Per asked in awe, as if that were the most fantastic part of their tale.

Dragons. A sky full of dragons.

I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.

This was a young man who had killed, but never before been in imminent danger of being killed. I felt oddly qualified to introduce him to the sensation.

The Six Duchies would fall. The world would end. We went to fetch blankets.

We'd had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth's fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they'd sent messages only sporadically.

The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.

So this was our adventure. And the prince and the princess get married and live happily ever after, with many children to warm the in their old age.' He had probably heard that phrase thousands of times in his life. It was a common way for a minstrel to end a hero tale. 'Perhaps,' I said cautiously. 'Perhaps.' 'What happens to the rest of us?

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

an Elderling named Sedric was raising the child with Carson.

The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of her birth, going both by sea and by land, to a village far in the mountains where a peak smoked in the distance and glowed red at night

All of us stand on the edge of the future; why venture off the precipice?