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“History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..”
― M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient England

“Clear vision holds the key.”
― M.J. Colewood

“To date, treasure-hunters have followed up clue after clue, including a dagger-marked tree, to no avail. If there is a fortune buried in Handcart Gulch, it is still safely hidden”
― Phyllis Flanders Dorset, The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes

“There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man’s mind. He will pray and blaspheme, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till he is dead—and even then Doctor did you ever hear of the miserable gringos on Azuera, that cannot die.”
― Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

“There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man’s mind. He will pray and blaspheme, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till he is dead—and even then Doctor, did you ever hear of the miserable gringos on Azuera, that cannot die?”
― Joseph Conrad

“Winston Breen was solving a puzzle, but then Winston Breen was always solving a puzzle.”
― Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

“Who hides a ring? Who sets up this whole cockamamie production with puzzle pieces and treasure hunts and who knows what else over a ring?”
― Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

“Of course. Treasure hunts make much better stories when there’s treasure at the end.”
― Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

“Let the game be ventured!”
― M.J. Colewood

“A horse! A horse! My Dukedom for a horse!" (Duke William at Hastings - The Last Treasure of Ancient England)”
― M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient England

“Don’t forget young Chester, ‘The past is a foreign countryâ€�, but boarding school will be another world, my boy!”
― M.J. Colewood

“In Search of El Dorado by Stewart Stafford

A meandering mountain path awaits,
Build a bonfire of remembrance,
With crunching staff on gravel,
Certainty slowly becomes a stranger.

The funereal pace of the brand-new,
Is reborn in accelerating steps,
In concert with liberation's adrenaline,
And a cooling breeze through the brim.

Startled young fox on a crag,
A hawk circles overhead,
Sage standing stones keep counsel,
Their shadows pointing the way forward.

Sheep stare and chew in nearby wet fields,
Occasionally bleating confused directions,
A pillar of black smoke stretches into the sky,
A beacon on the horizon.

A ridge around a corner,
The crêpe shop comes into view,
Relief exhaled upon reaching El Dorado's gates,
Golden sustenance and home via the car park.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“This was just the sort of game younger guys played. He wasn’t looking for a partner, he was looking for a challenge.”
― Melissa Hill, The Love of a Lifetime

“Friends don’t look at each other the way you and that guy Ryan do. Friends don’t smile and tease, and try to make some kind of bodily contact with one another at every available opportunity.”
― Melissa Hill, The Love of a Lifetime

“Because I can tell you happy endings do not occur when there are three people involved in a relationship story. Someone gets hurt. Always.”
― Melissa Hill, The Love of a Lifetime

“Because if you even make a tiny bit of room in either of those places for anyone else, then something in your relationship isn’t right.”
― Melissa Hill, The Love of a Lifetime

“All she knew was that something was going wrong in her relationship, in parallel to something good and intriguing happening elsewhere and, try as she might, she felt powerless to stop either one.”
― Melissa Hill, The Love of a Lifetime

“Happy endings didn’t happen for cheaters, or heroines who started one relationship without finishing another.”
― Melissa Hill, The Love of a Lifetime

“Despite Langdon's assurances that the keystone had nothing to do with her past, Sophie still sensed something deeply personal entwined within this mystery, as if this cryptex, forged by her grandfather's own hands, were trying to speak to her and offer some kind of resolution to the emptiness that had haunted her all these years.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“The stories we tell today are founded on past experiences.
It is on the foundation of history that the present and future is built.”
― DP Warren, McGill

“Every great adventure hunt begins with a single question: Will you rise to the challenge or let the treasure slip through your grasp?
â€� Victor J., SinghApour: A Thrilling Treasure Adventure for Humanity's Future”
― Victor J ., SINGHAPOUR: A Thrilling Treasure Adventure For Humanity's Future