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Adventure Quotes

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Sara Pascoe
“What’s “ague?”� Raya asked.
‘Malaria.� Oscar said.
‘Oh, great.�
‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.� Raya ignored
the cat.”
Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Susan  Rowland
“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,� he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,� he said.”
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

Max Nowaz
“One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

Yvonne Korshak
“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Max Nowaz
“Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you can find      fulfilment.”
Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

Susan  Rowland
“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

Yvonne Korshak
“Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Jason Mraz
“Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
Jason Mraz

Yvonne Korshak
“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Veronica Rossi
“In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.”
Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

Yvonne Korshak
“Pericles let a moment pass, then another. The Spartans needed time to set in balance the risks of accepting the offer and the joys of being rich. Not as much time as he’d expected, though.”
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Christopher McCandless
“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
Christopher McCandless

Lotchie Burton
“The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire: Action Adventure, Romantic Suspense, Multicultural interracial

Max Nowaz
“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest�,� he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.� It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

Susan  Rowland
“Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

Mike  Martin
“You speak rabbit?� asked Princess Sophie.
“Of course,� said Lady Ariana. “And cat, dog, mouse, pig, and chicken. Fish, too. I am a magician, after all.”
Mike Martin, Princess Sophie and the Christmas Elixir

E.M. Forster
“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

Susan  Rowland
“Unbelievable and true. Anna Solokov is neither a frightened girl nor a criminal spider in the center of a huge web of drugs and god knows. No, that dangerous young woman could easily do both at different times, and to different people. No doubt that is part of George’s attraction to her. She is victim. Yet when necessary, or when it suits her, she is victimizer. Does he imagine he is battling for her soul?”
Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

Ansel Adams
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
Ansel Adams

Nikita Gill
“Fall in love with someone
who tastes like adventure
but looks like
the calm, beautiful morning
after a terrible storm”
Nikita Gill

Herman Melville
“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Seanan McGuire
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Steven Decker
“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things, and we want to be part of it.”
Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

Susan  Rowland
“Mary dashed the rain from her eyes with a frozen hand. Was that a knife buried in the man’s chest with the blood seeping up around it? Doesn’t that mean he’s alive? Although with the blade at that angle, it can’t be for long. Colors swam in the water coating Mary’s vision. She rubbed her face, and with every shuttering breath, even before she could see his features, she knew her son, George, the son she had never met, was dead.”
Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

Jack Kerouac
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
Tim Daly

Barry Finlay
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond

Andri E. Elia
“Is it still a fish cart when there’s no fish in it? When its false bottom is filled with children?”
Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel