Adventure Quotes

BLUE, THE colour of the sky, of the ocean, of certain stars and planets and the hue of the bluest eyes you have ever seen.

~ Kev Heritage

The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.

~ Kev Heritage

Intense sunlight rained down on a half-submerged city. Waves crashed between buildings that stood like waterlogged tombstones. Skyscrapers of smashed glass and twisted rusting metal jutted from the churning swell as islands of broken dreams. A familiar tower with a familiar clock face…Big Ben. London stared back at Blue. What was left of it. A sea-drowned cemetery for a time and a place long dead.

~ Kev Heritage

But she had slept, she was positive. She knew it because of the dreams. Despite the comfort of her bed she had tossed and turned all night, her sleep punctured by images and disjointed flashes of battle. She thought she had also dreamt of a handsome stranger with dark hair and a charming smile. Upon waking, however, the unknown man’s features were indistinct in her memory.

~ Katie Lynn Johnson

An elegant sari was draped across her figure; magnificent, painstakingly embroidered, and in a shade of deep red, it was even more lavish than the gowns she had worn every day since arriving at the castle. Her lips and eyes were painted, and though she looked beautiful she had never been more miserable.

~ Katie Lynn Johnson

No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in his tracks. It was not a particularly accurate weapon if he remembered correctly, not that it would matter at point-blank range.

~ Katie Lynn Johnson

It had been the most difficult part of coming to terms with what she was; knowing that she had to give up a potentially blissful and wildly happy relationship with Caleb. But it was her responsibility, she told herself, to say goodbye to him.

~ Katie Lynn Johnson

There are simply some laws we must transgress, no matter the penalty.

~ Eli Hinze

I’ve never been on a bike,” I say. “I mean, I’ve been on a bike but not a motorcycle.”“And why is that?” he asks. “Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That’s just gross.” Chris makes a face.“If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.

~ Summer Lane

Why are you in my room?”“Because I can be.”“You shouldn’t be.”“Save it, Rochester. You broke my nose.”“Does it hurt?”He lifted a hand toward his face and dropped it. “You could say that.”“Good.”He nudged a tray on the floor with his boot. It had oatmeal, toast, and orange juice on it. “Hungry?”Honor’s stomach growled. “No.”Ryder’s lips turned up in a fleeting sadistic smile. He kicked the tray across the room. It hit the wall and overturned. “Good.

~ Lindy Zart

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

~ Alexia Purdy

Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.

~ Lynn Blackmar

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

~ Lynn Blackmar

People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we’re different, and those we try to get information from put us on an even lower level than the ones they don’t notice. They don’t believe we’re even capable of being a threat, and they misstep more than they might with someone they simply don’t know.

~ Lynn Blackmar

He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was boredom. The trouble was that boredom tended to explode in your face. Just when he thought he'd found it he'd be suddenly involved in what he supposed other people - thoughtless, feckless people - would call an adventure. And he'd be forced to visit many strange lands and meet exotic and colourful people, although not for very long because usually he'd be running. He'd seen the creation of the universe, although not from a good seat, and had visited Hell and the afterlife. He'd been captured, imprisoned, rescued, lost and marooned. Sometimes it had all happened on the same day.

~ Terry Pratchett

My life is a plate of perfectly edible but ordinary scrambled eggs. I want them savory, creamy, cheesy and maybe with bacon on the side.

~ Varsha Bajaj

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

~ A.e. Poynor

Be one with today’s adventure.

~ A.d. Posey

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

~ J.k. Rowling

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.I don't much care where –Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

~ Lewis Carroll

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

~ Herman Melville

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

~ Alexandre Dumas

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

~ Lewis Carroll

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

~ Charles Dickens

Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.

~ Emily Wing Smith

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

~ Karen Blixen

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

~ E.m. Forster

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

~ Herman Melville

Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’‘I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.

~ Jojo Moyes

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

~ Mercedes Lackey

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

~ Craig Ferguson

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole? said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.

~ Crimethinc.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

~ Holly Lisle

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

~ Robin Mckinley

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

~ Ellen Potter

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

~ Ellen Potter