Quotes About Adventure

I was imagining the most bizarre things befalling you." "Did they include a six-hundred-pound ice bear and a pirate poet?" "No…" "Then they weren't the most bizarre after all.

So the unknown breeds dragons in map margins, she reflected...

I have to find a boat. Somehow.

Miles's eyes glinted. Besides, it'll put a little excitement in your life, Sergeant. It has to be dull as dirt, following me around all day. I'd be bored to tears. I like being bored, said Bothari morosely.

Not quite that passionate, for me, said Thorne. I mainly stick around due to an overwhelming curiosity to see what happens next. Thorne favored Miles with a peculiar smile.

Do you remember," Ivan sighed, "that time in the back garden at Vorkosigan House, when you'd been reading all those military histories about the Cetagandan prison camps during the invasion, and you decided we had to dig an escape tunnel? Except it was you who did all the designing, and me and Elena who did all the digging?

Mikkel grinned. Bree made a mistake. I'll find her yet!

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

Hurriedly then he donned his magical sword in its wide scabbard of leather; and with scanty provisions hastened over the fields, after the last of the leaves, whose autumnal glory led him, as many a cause in its latter days, all splendid and fallen, leads all manner of men.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

We have joined the caravan, you might say, at a certain point; we will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in a lifetime see all that we would like to see or learn all that we hunger to know.

Distraction Slow Ride

Ideen braucht man nur, wenn man nichts erlebt

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

Everyone at some point in their lives should have a long great love affair with a magnificent lunatic.

Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

Roza didn't want to go, and she made the woman promise to let her ride the horse again. It was apparently called "Russia" because it was very big, a complete liability, and always going where it wasn't wanted.

The pleasure of homecoming is more than recompense for the pains of setting out, and therefore it is always worth departing.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

A journey is time suspended.

Yol Bolsun (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour}

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.