Author Quotes on Adventure

Following are quotes that are relevant to Tasman’s story.

I suggest you keep them for the days when you are reading the novel to see why I selected them and how they impact the storyline.

“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt….   Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
― George Eliot

“You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself “if only I’d known,” but, of course, you couldn’t have known.”
― Mary Downing Hahn, The Dead Man in Indian Creek

“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”
― Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

“What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger’s Curse