Quotes About Adventure

I wonder how many species break their planets getting off them.

Oh, don't think we're all seriousness and stealth, Merlin.

Eventually, I realized I was wasting my time, and if I wanted to hide from humanity in a bottle, I was better off making it a titanium one with a warp drive and a couple of carefully selected companions.

It's not the solar system they'll claim, but eventually the universe. It might be lonely. It will be strange. Do you really want to be one of them?

A faint shudder ran through the ship when we dropped out of white space into reality.

Hey, it's my job to climb into questionable machines.

I'd changed my gown for trousers and a chain haulberk, and I had a silver sword I hadn't the faintest idea how to use strapped to the saddle that Whiskey had grudgingly accepted.

Somebody intelligent enough for space flight already lives on Grail.

The road is the song. The song is the road.

You have had many lovers, it seems." "I have many liasons," the Elf-knight answered, unflinchingly. "I have one lover.

His pilots. And no, frankly, just his pathway to other worlds, but personal friends, all three of them.

We had been going to change the galaxy together.

You're on a ride-along in a jumbo flying squid. Dosideieus gigas. I thought it would be nicer than waking up in a hospital bed, given how much time you've spent in those.

I don't suppose you know where in Hell we're going?" "Not Hell," Puck said. "Well, perhaps Hell, but I think it unlikely.

In the course of a long unlife, borders might cross as often as one crossed borders.

Don't wander far. I'd hate to see kidnapped by pirates. They have an eye for a pretty man.

No matter what kind of nonsense is going on around you, the first moment of stepping out of a vehicle into space is always awe-inspiring, the more so here in the Core than elsewhere.

I hauled my heart out of my pants with both hands and followed it through the breachd hull, and into the night.

I hauled my heart out of my pants with both hands and followed it through the breached hull, and into the night.

I had a giant bug to help me. (In all honesty I was probably the sidekick in this equation. But it makes me feel better to pretend otherwise.)

I must discern how I may invade the Tower of London, from which I have myself only recently escaped.

He'd stepped from the Darkling Glass, his sword in hand and witchcraft on his lips-and straight into a sorcerer's trap.

In reality, there's nothing quite like staring into the most enormous black hole in the galaxy, then flying down its gullet like a gnat with attitude.

My flight led me through twisting companion-ways and chambers vast and tiny and in between, whose purpose was indeterminate because I did not stop to investigate.