Adventure Quote by Thomas Ligotti

“He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were,…

— Alan Sillitoe

“It was a familiar pattern. They would whisperingly condemn his violence with those sour, baleful expressions, until they wanted some cunt sorting out, then…

— Irvine Welsh

“The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like.”

— David Baldacci

“In the corridor outside, a trolley squeaks by. The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the clock, shelves…

— David Mitchell

“History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner”

— Kate Morton

“He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At…

— Jon Krakauer

“He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling that he…

— George Orwell

“Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way…

— Marcel Proust

“All of his life had been filled with crashing ends to promising beginnings.”

— R.A. Salvatore

“Alberta was back again. Back to it all, to all that was warped and desultory, to the lies and evasions and small, hidden irons…

— Cora Sandel

“He sits, silent, no longer mistaking the cable news for company— and when he talks, he talks of childhood, remembering some slight or conundrum…

— Anthony Walton

“He wasn’t sure how a teenager recently freed from a decade’s imprisonment in an inferno under a quarantined city had a more active social…

— RoAnna Sylver