Quotes About Adventure

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you're leaving.

But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

He saw all of the light and colour and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.

somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed

The crocodile river was such fun. Two tourists were eaten in huge gulps but it was not sad at all because they were French.

When I was very young, about four, I had a friend names Modest Storewrecker.

To be brave came more easily if you knew nothing.

Annemarie's silvery blond hair flew behind her

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Damn it, he mumbled apologetically, things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold. She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

the unknown breeds dragons in map margins

That's the spirit! Forward momentum. Mayhew snorted. Your forward momentum is going to lead all your followers over a cliff someday. He paused, beginning to grin. On the way down, you'll convince 'em all they can fly. He stuck his fists in his armpits, and waggled his elbows. Lead on, my lord. I'm flapping as hard as I can.

If he ever does do himself in, I'm betting it'll be something that involves large explosions. And lots of innocent bystanders, probably.

We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way.

Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan. Occupation: security risk. Hobbies: falling off walls, disappointing sick old men to death, making girls cry.

The shuttle bumped, bounced, banged, rocked, and roared out over the flat, cracked surface. She was sorry she had never made a pass at Leo. Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you. Her seat harness cut across her breasts as deceleration sucked her forward and the rumbling vibration rattled her teeth.