Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.

My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble.

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.