The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the...

Yes, yes. My eyes are like the sea or the sky or some such nonsense,” she quipped with a laugh, the lilting sound like the finest music, better than anything he could ever play.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one’s stomach the separation from terra… these form the most romantic sensation an...

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave… It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Do you know how fast you are walking? … To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30… 🙂

The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you’re standing on when you walk through.

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

[…] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.”As sanitary engineer?”No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before–and thus was the Empire forged.

No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one...

Oh you’re one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell God to forget about answering that particular prayer because it’s just happened. That’s...

I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water.

Possibly. But not today, I think.

The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Not yet. So though humanity...

We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram....

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the...

Because a sound tree doesn’t have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatnessbegins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

Even blind alleys lead somewhere.

Sometimes it takes a little madness to fulfill great things.

I mean that we are both in space and inside the tower at the same time.””Why is it so dark here?” Ni asked.”At the beginning, it is always dark.” Simone replied, “Then everything comes into...

He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the...

Splendor was the decree of the day.

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

A Skalan trader tried to tell me the streets of his cities were paved with gold,” Alec went on. “I didn’t believe him, though. He was the one who tried to buy me from father....

But I couldn’t stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

…Don’t insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty’s forte…If time were Parry’s pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.

Adventure is my middle name.

Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one’s head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this....

Even now I ask myself, what would have happened if I had gone to the cove with Tansy that Thursday afternoon, instead of going to the beach? If I had stayed away from the boat...

I’m not prepared for Rue’s family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock...

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers...

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping...

This is a jolly imprudent adventure!

And I’d rather not.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

This was not what we wanted to hear that morning. Adventures inspire, tall tales excite, and fantasies stir the imagination, but sad stories seldom ever buoy the spirit. We all paused to take in the...

There is a word I have always avoided in my writing, my life, my thoughts. That word is love. What does it mean? How do you deal with it? If you find it and lose...

Realizing that the dream had been sent to him for a purpose, Adin worked in secert over many months to create a likeness of the belt he had been shown.Then he traveled around the kingdom...

Dreading dusk, fearing night, praying for dawn.

Blood drummed in her ears and adrenaline coursed through her veins, driving her to move. To act. Her hands trembled against his chest.Time vanished out from beneath her feet, one accelerating second at a time.

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for ‘Glee.’

I see any difficulty as an adventure.

You can’t prepare for everything life’s going to throw at you. And you can’t avoid danger. It’s there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you’ll...