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...

you were attacked by cement monkeys?

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings’ making, and I had come out stronger.

You can make it if you try. Don’t give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.

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...

Shining with craving, his emerald gaze penetrated her soul. “I desire you so much”. His whisper melted her heart. His soft touch set her ablaze.

Getting used to that is going to be an adventure for me, and maybe it will make me a better transportation secretary because all of us need transportation too.

I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’ ‘I should think so, in these parts. We’re plain, quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing,...

Don’t worry Stephen. The sproggers will care for her” Bob told him before letting out a spine shivering sinister laugh.

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being “false,” “untrue,” yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.

Adventure: the pursuit of life.

I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.

Yes, she loved her ship more than she had loved him. But what she loved even more was what it gave her: freedom, and the key to the marvels of space. It gave her the...

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

Outside of the usual bar or nightclub, it’s not every day that I get a drink bought for me-at least not by strangers and certainly not on a workday. On that Saturday, in September 2010,...

Kammy jerked upright. It was as though the trees had parted beneath the pressure of the storm and a bolt of lightning had struck her. She had never entered the mouth for it had always...

We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all eternity, under the grime of centuries, beyond time. When even the...

I come to oil country with a book about radicals who wish for the end of pipelines. But that’s not what it’s about. It’s the friction point of prosperity and concern, ability and disability, the...

Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely…we all have a choice in life.

Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted.

The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they’d never done and go where they’d never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and...

life – your gunna meet some two faced people, some bosses that make your soul cringe, some places you wished you’d never walked into… But then you’ll grow, you’ll learn that your gut instinct isn’t...

In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago,...

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled...

No real adventure ever started by waiting patiently by a doorstep.

And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.

If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and...

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

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

These three children own the summer. They know the wood as surely as they know the micro landscapes of their own grazed knees; put them down blindfolded in any dell or clearing and they could...

Oh, come on, Pole, buck up. After all, it is an adventure.

I’m going to be a fairy.” Sarah announced, studying her file.”What a surprise.” Nicole mumbled, closing the door.

And, for the gods sake, don’t waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.

Don’t go. Come with us. I promise you won’t regret it.”For a moment, Peter stood in the road indecisively, staring into the girl’s eyes as if trying to penetrate a great mystery.

…I didn’t run away to come home the same. -Claudia

The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens,...

Elijah: You are a dangerous woman.Valeria: You do not know the half of it, but I suppose you are not one to always dabble in safe waters either. So, do you still want to work...