Adventure Quotes

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Clark Zlotchew
“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.”
Clark Zlotchew

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

Paulo Coelho
“I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

E.M. Forster
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

Andri E. Elia
“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.”
Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

Andri E. Elia
“Do flyers become archers when you give them a bow? No. They need arrows, too.”
Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

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

Barry Kirwan
“It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? ”
Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

Michael              Parker
“Gentlemen,’ the professor said gravely. ‘You must stop this madman. If you do not, you are looking at a doomsday scenario of apocalyptic proportions.”
Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

Michael              Parker
“Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

Barry Kirwan
“Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne”
Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

Barry Kirwan
“They must train you pretty good not to react to shit like that. Must take stuff out of you.” Vince’s eyes intensified then broke her gaze. ‘Actually, it’s more like they put stuff in.”
Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

Barry Kirwan
“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first performance in Vienna.”
Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

Michael              Parker
“And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them.”
Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

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: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery

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: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery

Bridges McCall
“The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
Bridges McCall

Miriam Verbeek
“That’s it. Let’s go.”
“Yep,” whispered Suley. He turned to leave. “This is crazy.” He had his phone in his hand. “Look, we’re still in Rowland Forest. What’s this fence doing here? How come it’s not marked?”
“We’ll tell your father about it.” Saskia pulled at his arm, looking anxiously around and up. To her horror, she saw a surveillance camera mounted on an overhead tree branch. It pointed straight at them. “Merde! Suley, we’ve got to go!” she hissed, pointing to the camera.
His eyes widened.
Distant shouts and an engine roaring to life exploded the forest calm.
Suley and Saskia bolted back the way they’d come.”
Miriam Verbeek, The Forest: A new Saskia van Essen crime mystery thriller

Priya Ardis
“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”
Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”
Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

Elizabeth Gilbert
“Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.”
A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

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: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery

Harvey Havel
“After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed.  This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all.  And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
Harvey Havel, The Odd and the Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

Jim Butcher
“Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness
begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you”
Jim Butcher, Furies of Calderon

Jon Krakauer
“I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

C. Toni Graham
“You always have free will to choose your path.”
C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

Steven Decker
“The calming presence of the forest merged with the beating hearts of the human beings, each of whom was emanating the same peaceful energy that Emily was feeling. This is magical, she thought. I could live my life doing this. And then the moment passed.”
Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

Grahame Shannon
“He was not a tall man, but he was wide. His face was the color and texture of old leather boots, and he was completely bald except for a gray walrus mustache that would have made Hulk Hogan jealous. He was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, even though it was chilly and wet. His arms were densely tattooed in style I didn’t recognize.”
Grahame Shannon, Tiger and the Robot