Quotes About Adventure

Catch me if you can -A

Let's punk this bitch. - Nisha

The world was much more fun when they were playing the game.

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn't matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time

Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

I had never done anything yet that was conventional – why should the love of my life be any different?

A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

He prefers his adventures second hand.

The quickest way from St Petersburg to Kamchatka in furthest Siberia is still often westwards via New York.

Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.

the only thing I wanted was to walk with Frodo into Mordor. Because if I could live for a little while inside a great story written by a first-rate Christian storyteller, maybe my fragmented world just might make some kind of narrative sense again. And I was right.