#advent

It’s the unknown that draws people. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#adventures #attraction #discovery #fascination #love-of-the-unknown

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fantasy #humor #humor

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood. ↗

— Lance Morcan

#adventure #fiji #historical-fiction #historical-romance #romance

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) ↗

— Olivier Weber

#fiction #french-literature #literature #love #painting

Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. "Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be. ↗

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

#fiction-novel #middle-grade #outlaw-heroes #young-adult #love

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you. ↗

— Jo Deurbrouck

#adventure-stories #adventure-travel #rivers #love

What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots? ↗

— Humberto Contreras

#economy #future #love #romance #science

Linc was so amazed at what he saw and heard, “This is sooo cool. I love this place. This looks way better than a day spotting weird people at Walmart. ↗

— S.W. Lothian

#adventure #fantasy #humour #magic #middle-grade

She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch. -- Leslie McNeill ↗

— Richard Finney

#alpha-male #apocalyptic #contemporary #extraterrestrials #paranormal

...how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn’t even imagine. ↗

— Laurie J. Marks

#fantasy-fiction #warfare #imagination