Quotes About Adventure

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

life is risk. The only choice is, are you the taker or the taken?

You've found that there is something that can make you feel, and make you feel present: sex. Not the routine, dusk-and-dawn sex of a trusted, established relationship, but illicit, dangerous sex. Sex that is novel and leaves you sore; that is experienced in the gaps between your mundane, moral life; that is strange and breathless and addictive.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

They go out into the world expecting adventure, and the patriarchy eats them.

Geim's perspective, blunt as you like, is that it's "better to be wrong than be boring," so he lets those working on the FNEs stay free enough to take risks and, inevitably, fail.16

In India I've slowly been learning that I'm not in complete control of my life...

If you go to Paris, you won't find Paris; you'll find yourself in Paris. Ditto anywhere else. You might as well stay home.

It's impossible to fail if one doesn't know how the end should look. And it's impossible to succeed. But it's possible to enjoy.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

If I was really, really lucky, Felix might throw a fireball at me, and I'd get out of the rest of this freakshow.

There ain't much to be said about walking across Kekropia aside from the boredom of it.

Every maze has a monster at its heart.

I love you, Taylor Carmichael Corretti. I love you for better and for worse—preferably worse, by the way." His eyes glittered into hers. "I love a bad girl. Think about it—if I marry you we can spend the rest of our lives shocking people.

A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if it bores you, you can move on.

And I know that when you're scared, the best thing to do is throw yourself into whatever it is that scares you. Just do it. Don't think about what could go wrong. That's a surefire way of never doing anything in life.

You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.

If you don't push yourself to do the things that scare you, how will you ever find out if there's more to life than the one you're living?

A book can't take the place of a man!» «I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»

She loved living here, in this land of mist and mountains, of lochs and legend.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

We need Harry Potter.