Quotes About Exploration

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.

Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.

Och det har till sist börjat gå upp för mig som en aning -: det är kanske icke meningen att man skall förstå livet. Allt detta raseri att förklara och förstå, all denna sanningsjakt är kanske en avväg.

If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

When you don't know what you're searching for," he says, "you have to look absolutely everywhere.

She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced.

It takes bravery to be an adventurer," Odette said, lifting her drink and walking away. "And what better adventure than the discovery of our true selves?

Everything smelled wet and feral like it did before a thunderstorm, and she wanted to run, swift and eager, beyond the edge of what she could see.

This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.

Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious.

The universe belongs to the curious.

Remember when . . . ? Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.

You're coming with me.

Eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Quiero comprobar qué harás. Quiero participar en el desarrollo de la narración.

I know the number of steps to the top of every spire. I know every corner that a child could hide in, every place she could be dragged out from.

You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

Porque eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Porque quiero comprobar qué harás. Quiero participar en el desarrollo de la narración.

Holly Black, Cassandra Clare