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...

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...