Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.

I know I am planning to visit a “land” that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life....

I am an explorer,’ she whispered, ‘setting courageously off into the wild unknown.’ It was not a daydream she’d ever had before, but she felt the familiar comfort of her imagination wrapping around her. She...

The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise...

Instead of living our lives fighting discontentment, striving to gain contentment from things that were never meant to bring contentment… What if we gave it all up for a grand adventure, for a worthy cause,...

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

Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE!

I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined...

What do you mean, my life is at risk?” I questioned. “From one of the other professors?””Oh, it goes much deeper than that, Freddy,” he said with a half crazed, wide eyed smile. Leaning in,...

Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

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...