Quote by Arthur Ransome

“They had traveled, escaped and recovered.”

— Nikki Sex

“Where the explorers go, conquerors and exploiters always follow.”

— James Cambias

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“it. I was venturing into a wilderness many had explored before me, crossing the threshold separating those who had killed from those who had…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those…

— Joy Hakim

“She didn't need 'little chunks of home'. They were like slightly sinister postcards from old enemies.”

— Lisa Jewell

“Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do or say…

— Paulette Jiles

“No one went looking for adventure; they chased it away.”

— Robyn Schneider

“This, it seemed, was just what happened when you left someone. They disappeared behind you like the wake of a boat.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Before, they wouldn't speak to each other. Now they were mobilized. The Tribe was in danger.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.”

— Brian Francis Slattery