Quotes About Adventure

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.

The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.

She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.

Life was going to be one big party from now on, full of beautiful people. Like Tally Youngblood

Run and hide. We're on our way.

And Deryn didn't mind the constant practice in useful skills like knife throwing, swearing, and not showing pain when punched. But how did boys keep this up their whole barking lives?

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

surprise. "Come on

If any of us die tonight, it won't be from cold or suffocation—it'll be from hitting the ground too fast. Have I mentioned we aren't wearing parachutes?

I've always wanted to meet Tally Youngblood in the flesh.

We walked around four hundred miles and most nights we were the only people in the world who knew where we were. There are many definitions of freedom but surely that is one of them.

Billy's at 44 north, 56 west and heading straight into meteorological hell.

He commuted to his Canadian office in a Ferrari, though sometimes snowy conditions forced him to use Bentley.

Il mondo è un gomitolo di strade e seguendole trovi tutto: vita e morte, miseria e felicità, lacrime e consolazione, avventura e amore.

It seemed to me that the two remaining masts almost leaned forward, out of the vertical, so great was the pressure of wind in sails. Nothing broke, nothing tore—so beautiful was our position and so constant the current of air. It made the blood sing in my veins, and I knew I could be a sailor for life, if I chose. Yes, I could gladly wait a lifetime, a full sixteen years more, for such a sensation again. Without our effort, grace moved us forward.

Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.

And he sailed off through night and day And in and out of weeks And almost over a year To where the wild things are.

she is said to have possessed golden sandals that carried her over water and land

begin to realize that the safest thing you can do feels risky and the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

Commit to the frightening work of flying blind

Start Your Journey Before You See the End

if it scares you, it might be a good thing to try

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.