2,981 Quotes About Adventure

  • Author Ann Batterson
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    Suddenly the semipalmated plovers startle, then lift, swirling off in one smooth oscillation. They bank out over the water, stream up over the horizon, then arch backward in a long graceful curve, as if they were being sculpted by the wind. They return as abruptly as they left, falling out of the sky like drops of rain.~~The Black Swan

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  • Author S.C. Barrus
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    When John-Joseph Heller's fights became too much of a sure thing, story has it he moved on to more risky fights with grown men and even starved dogs. Though he was scarred often, he was never beaten. But as he brought each opponent to his knees, John-Joseph Heller was also growing up and his vision began to extend further than the ring.

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  • Author Susan Wiggs
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    You know how often we have longed for a sea voyage, as the fulfillment of all our dreams of poetry and romance, the realization of our highest conceptions of free, joyous existence.Let me assure you, my dears. that going to sea is not at all the thing that we have taken it to be.Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.

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  • Author Mayumi Cruz
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    His kiss was unlike the one they shared in the bathroom. This kiss was gentle, deliberately slow, luxuriating in the delicate exquisiteness of her lips, awakening a new set of sensations she didn't know existed until now, coaxing her to respond.And respond she did.

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  • Author Mayumi Cruz
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    It also didn't matter that she had only known him for a short time. The heart knows no time when it meets its match, its better half, its kindred one, which long ago was planned by destiny and then thrust forward by serendipity in ways she had never imagined.

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  • Author Dianne Duvall
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    What?”“I am so attracted to you.”Her eyebrows rose and the corners of her full lips turned up. “What?”“It appears you’ve thought of everything.” He shook his head. “And I find your intelligence as immensely appealing as your beauty.”Pink flooded her cheeks. “Flatterer.”He grinned.

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