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Quotes About Adventure

Must we go in?" asked Margary. "Yes," said Mary. "We are only given times like these so that we can go back again. Come along." And she parted the trailing branches of the willow and led the way out.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
He saw a boy pull something long and squirming from the ground and pop it into his mouth.
~ Elizabeth Hand
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
You're brave to have driven all this way." Gwen considered for a moment whether this made her brave. In truth, she was always afraid, always worried. She shook her head. "Like I said, I've always wanted to come north for as long as I can remember." "Three thousand miles!" "Yes," still unimpressed by herself," but I never went over fifty.
~ Elizabeth Hay
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." —Cynthia Heimel
~ Elizabeth Hilts
Will ye come with me?" he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. "Yes, please.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Was ich möchte, ist, jede Menge Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Weißt du, zu Hause geht das nicht mehr. Ich meine, so gut wie alles, was ich neu lerne, steht in einem Buch, was schon interessant ist, aber nicht dasselbe, denn wenn mir diese Sachen passieren würden, würde ich sie vielleicht ganz anders erleben.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Nicht zu wissen, was ich genau will, heißt allerdings nicht, dass ich zu etwas Langweiligem gezwungen werden möchte, von dem alle denken, es wäre gut für mich. Damit meinen sie doch nur, dass es sicher und langweilig ist und nicht schlecht. Aber Sicherheit interessiert mich nicht.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Es war herrlich, frei zu sein, ihr Zuhause verlassen zu können, allmählich Dinge herauszufinden über Menschen, die nicht zur Familie gehörten. Alles kann passieren, dachte sie, wirklich alles! Und ich will auch, dass es passiert - was immer es ist.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
All the best stories in the world were of escape.
~ Elizabeth Joy Arnold
I remembered how it had been first learning to read, how the squiggles of print finally organized themselves slowly and painfully into words, then pieced together into sentences with meaning. Now, for the first time, the squiggles were releasing actual worlds... All of them surfacing from the page so real that when I finally closed my eyes, I was amazed their lives didn't continue around me. A whole world somehow tucked back into the book, waiting for me to set it free.
~ Elizabeth Joy Arnold
How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the Pacific before you found Easter Island?
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
this thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don't see land.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
On our way over to see the bird
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Roth pulled a second glove over the first and grabbed what looked like a video game remote.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
The fruit of prayer is the realization that life is an eternal adventure, and that we are explorers, always changing, always learning, always breaking open into new vistas of clarity and peace.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
And the last thing to know about death is that the death of the body is the start of an adventure.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
To be human is to be lost in the woods.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
There is no dry land, he said; there is only fearlessness, which is to be found in the heart. This is the path to freedom. At
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away." "If you run away," said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
approaching Kyle. The Tangs
~ Elizabeth Lowell
on the tiny counter. "Playing? If that's what you
~ Elizabeth Lowell
Nothing wrong with you a good roller coaster wouldn't fix.
~ Elizabeth McCracken