#advent

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. ↗

Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving. ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#england #governess #london #tea #england

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre. ↗

— Olivier Weber

#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known. ↗

— Mary Downing Hahn

#mystery #decisions

Adventures do occur, but not punctually. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#india

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#safety

You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it. ↗

— Robert Karl Hanson

#animation #cartoon #children-s-book #cute #kid-s-books

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. ↗