Adventure Quote by George R.R. Martin

“She was an ocean full of storms and sailing in her would have made him lose his path forever. But he was not ready…

— Akshay Vasu

“At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking of the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“All her stories seemed to involve rowboats and ukuleles, full moons and campfires and grog. I was desperately jealous.”

— Paula McLain

“who hadn’t at some point in his life wanted to climb to the top of a sailing ship in full flight?”

— Lev Grossman

“The ship itself was about as long as a football field, or some other really long thing, given that may honestly could never remember…

— James Riley

“How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“...and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not…

— Jay Parini

“I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me:…

— Leesa Freeman

“There were no romantic ships passing in the night. It was more like dinghies in the dark: Awkward, slow and hard to handle, quickly…

— Candace Vianna

“Then he clambered into the boat. Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over…

— D. H. Lawrence

“She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast…

— Alasdair Gray

“First time on a sailboat?” she asked, as casually as if she wasn’t standing there, gripping the wheel of a sleek, forty-foot sailing vessel…

— Donna Kauffman