Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go...

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.

Every day is a grand adventure into the great unknown and you cannot know what lies around the next corner. So, standing in this place, with the unknown before you, you have only two choices:...

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Sono stato in posti caldi come la pece, dove i compagni mi stramazzavano intorno per la febbre gialla e il terremoto faceva sollevare la maledetta terraferma, che sembrava il mare: che ne sa il dottore...

Not a day went by that he didn’t think of that moment of impact, and when he watched, helplessly, as his son died in his arms. For all intents and purposes, he died too. Jeb...

…and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger” – Billy Connolly

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition’s stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

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.

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to–and that is what adventures are all about.

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D’Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

If all goes well, we will be back in time for a proper memorial service [for your father], Ben. I promise.”Ben looked up, and all the bitterness was gone from his eyes, replaced somehow by...

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

For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people’s behavior no matter what dangers are around.

Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight to discover the truth of a Stranger.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered, full of darkness and danger they were. Sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy....

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we...

The colored hobo and now Junior Rabbit had told us, ‘Be ready to compete but be ready to fight too or you may not get a chance to compete’.

So Mary gasped in disbelief as she heard the squeaking noise again, and the grandmother’s rocking chair was not moving at all. Then the grandmother opened her eyes and looked directly at her, holding her...

If I knew that, ma’am, I probably wouldn’t need to be there.

Above the curving arc of the planet, a mammoth explosion plumed crimson and charcoal then erupted in a starburst of crystaline white which for a microsecond shone brighter than a sun. For the briefest moment...

That’s right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and youknow damn well how painful that can be!”Sand of Passion

I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it’s true, I really did. I shall have failed, that’s all. Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people...

He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn’t been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought...

I’m aware of that, and it is not pleasing in camp.

Look,” Grace said. “How strange! In spite of the rain, you can still see the stars. How bright they are tonight.” She pointed, but Lorcan didn’t look. His eyes remained fixed intently on her.”I can’t...

There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every...

Un secret est d’autant plus lourd à porter qu’il engage votre amour.

Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

Well, a lady isn’t exactly what they are expecting.

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker...

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don’t abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Because often it is the reader of adventures who saves the world. Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages… A reader never walks away...

Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don’t they?” – Quest Two: The Cursed Nile

Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.

Effie Seabright, we’ve been fated to meet you for a long time.

I was on one of my world ‘walkabouts.’ It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and then Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific [one of the places I grew...

When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a “make sure I have everything” glance. It was...

For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together.He wasn’t human. Would never be human. And Meg didn’t expect him to be....

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

Live your life as a novel with a daring, awesome main character; otherwise you’re just there for comic relief.

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like...