#advent

Dreams are glimpses into life’s truths. ↗

— Larry Itejere

#children-s-books #fantasy-fiction #teen-fantasy #dreams

You're never too young to die. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#young

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#bravery #carpe-diem #risk #risks #soul

Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you. ↗

— Emery Lee

#historical-fiction #historical-romance #historical

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening... ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#adventure #drama #expedition #tragedy #drama

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#romance #adventure

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#character-defining #melancholy

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#fear

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#adventure #answers #any #close #home

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#active #adventure #expects #experience #goes