#advent

No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare ↗

— C.T. Todd

#drama #horror #romance #vampire #dreams

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#africa #life #life

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe. ↗

— Libba Bray

#crazy #imagination #quick-plot-summary #death

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. ↗

— Guy Debord

#children #life #life

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#fear

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#am #i #i am #kind #like

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

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#anything #go #into #iron #out

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few