Top 100 Adventure Fiction Quotes
#1. As was the case in 'Darth Plagueis' - even going back as far as 'Cloak of Deception' - I was well aware that I was writing what used to be called 'men's adventure' fiction.
James Luceno
#2. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.
Michael Dirda
#3. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
Henry Mosquera
#4. Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.
Kaylin McFarren
#7. Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
Rick DeStefanis
#9. If you live your life with passion, every second will become an adventure.
Marie Guillaume
#10. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.
Kev Heritage
#11. Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.
Brad Jensen
#12. We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren't equal.
Natalie Crown
#13. Deep in the recesses of her mind, she knew they were probably watching. They watched everything, after all.
Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.
Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return.
G.S. Jennsen
#15. Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.
Laurence Yep
#16. Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [ A New Hope 's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.
James Berardinelli
#17. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#18. Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.
Jaleigh Johnson
#19. Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
Jonathan Franzen
#20. The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.
If only humans understood ...
Most ignore it.
Amanda Dubin
#21. I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#23. We attract to our lives what we desire most and our intent enhances our ability to ascend or may serve as a one-way-ticket to the lowest levels of conscientiousness where many enter and few to none come out.
Seraphine Abrams
#24. There the black horse stood - his feet planted firm on the ground, afraid to move. His coat was covered in sweat and a stark white rim lined his eyes. All three of us gawked at his sudden silence. The rattling metal gate was now the only sound.
Brittney Joy
#25. Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.
Karen Azinger
#26. I'm asking about the kid," Root said. "What does she get out of it?"
"My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do," Pennant said. "You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?
Walter Kaylin
#27. Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.
Ann Leckie
#28. A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ...
William Petersen
#29. For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.
James Patrick Kelly
#30. Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation."
"Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.
G.S. Jennsen
#31. Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what to expect. I would be ready. I would be prepared.
Erica Sehyun Song
#33. Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that.
Ed Lynskey
#34. It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero
Luke Edison
#35. I could have drowned today. If they hadn't been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn't woken up, I would have drowned.
Erica Sehyun Song
#36. This was not what we wanted to hear that morning. Adventures inspire, tall tales excite, and fantasies stir the imagination, but sad stories seldom ever buoy the spirit. We all paused to take in the sad news.
J.W. Lord
#37. This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.
Jeffrey Whittam
#38. I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
Erica Sehyun Song
#39. I'm now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I've had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word 'lizard.'"
-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.
Richard Finney
#40. He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. "I'll be damned."
"Possibly. But not today, I think.
G.S. Jennsen
#41. Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.
Donna Thorland
#42. Writing is an act of faith. One must believe and see people who are invisible to others and be faithful to tell half formed stories. It's like being on the trail of an apparition who's repeatedly just out of reach.
K. Youngblood
Katherine Imogene Youngblood
#43. How do you know I'm any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin
Claire M. Banschbach
#44. The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.
Erica Sehyun Song
#45. Buddy, you have no idea what I am capable of. Now, put the rifle down on the ground. Step back and walk away. Then leave this place and do not ever come back. If you do that, I will let you live.
James J. Caterino
#46. I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.
Hannah Harding
#48. It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.
Seraphine Abrams
#49. I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.
Megan Duke
#50. A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past, he said.
Elaine Marolakos Edelson
#51. Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled.
"How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?
G.S. Jennsen
#52. It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.
Milly Silver
#53. Crap this apology stuff is hard!
J.J. Snow
#54. The clouds behind the castle darkened and rolled, embracing the mountain and the white towers. And as the princess became more animated, the clouds rolled faster and faster. They twisted and deepened in color until a deafening crack sliced through the air.
Brittney Joy
#55. I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.
E.A. De Graaf
#56. I am an Ultimate," she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. "And I have the
power to do the impossible.
Sheeza Iqbal
#57. For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.
Y.S. Lee
#58. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#59. I don't think I've ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don't think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend."
"How would you introduce her?" I asked.
"I'm just going to say her name," he said.
Daniel Amory
#60. The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.
Amy Lignor
#61. A crowd began to gather round to watch the Heat begin.
They soon would learn which one would earn the famous Golden Fin!
The boards were tied to dolphin guides that pulled them like a sleigh
to what they called The Channel, every surfer's Dream Highway!
J.Z. Bingham
#62. Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Jaleigh Johnson
#63. I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack - I was meant to.
Megan Duke
#65. Oh you're one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell God to forget about answering that particular prayer because it's just happened. That's one of my pet hates, I'm sorry.
Elizabeth Newton
#66. Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.
Milly Silver
#67. Even if that is the truth," Derkein said, "what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?
Alecia Stone
#68. Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
Jon Scieszka
#69. My experiment has demonstrated that people from the past can be artificially reincarnated. The purpose is so people from Twinmortal do not commit the same error that we did.-Amaranth
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#70. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck
Ridley Pearson
#71. I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.
Lindsay Anderson
#72. I might've found a way to cure them." Crystal said in a jumble of words.
"Cure them? Permanently?"
"Yes sir."
He thought about this a moment before speaking, "You've got two weeks, can you do it by then?"
"That's plenty of time sir, thank you.
Julia Barkey
#74. You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!
Elizabeth Newton
#75. Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.
Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. "Jude Winslow, I presume.
G.S. Jennsen
#76. Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you.
Emery Lee
#77. Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
Karen Azinger
#78. What you must do," she continued, "you will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your time.
Stephen Whitfield
#79. I edited that [men's adventure] stuff, I read it all. I went from that to The Saturday Evening Post. The very first day at the Post, I edited a piece by John O'Hara and Hannah Arendt. She said, 'Come on, vat are you doink?'
"I said, 'You're okay Arendt, but you're no Walter Kaylin.
Mel Shestack
#80. If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.
Rand Miller
#81. Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
Karen Azinger
#82. If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.
G.S. Jennsen
#83. We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.
I want to know.
And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.
Jeno Marz
#84. The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical ...
Amanda Dubin
#85. He swallowed hard, annoyed at the sudden dryness in his throat. No reason to become all emotional about it now. He had already sold his soul for a chance at vengeance, and there was no getting it back.
G.S. Jennsen
#86. Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.
Karen Azinger
#87. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before
and thus was the Empire forged.
Douglas Adams
#88. Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?"
With a frown, she said, "I played."
"You took apart your robot dog.
Michelle O'Leary
#89. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.
Vivek Pereira
#90. I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.
Barry Tyrrell
#91. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.
Scott Thompson
#92. One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person," she said nastily, "Can make your life around here a living nightmare and I definitely don't think that you want that.
T.L. Clarke
#93. There are only a few planets with life. It is an oddity. It is really difficult to have the necessary conditions not only to support life but also to maintain the life inside a planet.-Loto
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#94. Remember Ping-fa, Sun Tzu,' Art of War - read between the lines: kick ass and take names later."
Mad
Stargirl
Linden Morningstar
#95. Junk?" Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn't about to let that pass.
Jaleigh Johnson
#96. None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.
Meg Xuemei X
#97. At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order to solve the mystery of their life's adventure.
Barrymore Tebbs
#98. Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?
C.J. Milbrandt
#99. In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.
Richard Laymon
#100. In my experience endings are false positives. Perhaps like a phoenix, out of the ashes of destruction we could be reborn."
-Cassandra Rainbow in PHOENIX-
Vaun Murphrey
