Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E.M. ForsterWayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?
Waxilliam: Why?
Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.
Waxilliam: And?
Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.
Waxilliam: Comfortable?
Wayne: No. Boring.
Mots clés humor friendship adventure
It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte...If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.
S.J. MusgravesMots clés adventure sci-fi children-s-literature fantasy-and-magic
Adventure is a need.
Toba BetaA fallow mind is a field of discontent.
John H. CunninghamMots clés humor adventure mystery thriller aviation tim-dorsey cuba bahamas carl-hiaasen john-d-macdonald key-west randy-wayne-white tom-corcoran
One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
Daniel AmoryMots clés future school philosophy adventure youth dreams dream economy young-adult chicago teacher summer jobs ya city students young-adult-fiction downtown academics law-school
I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.
Daniel AmoryMots clés school adventure youth dreams fiction dream economy young-adult chicago summer ya city lawyer job young-adult-fiction downtown attorney law-student
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.
Mots clés love school adventure romance youth dreams fiction dream economy young-adult contemporary chicago student summer ya city job young-adult-fiction downtown law-school
Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.
Daniel AmoryMots clés school philosophy adventure romance youth dreams fiction dream economy young-adult contemporary chicago student summer ya city job young-adult-fiction downtown law-school
This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.
Jeffrey WhittamMots clés gold adventure war africa historical-fiction diamonds warriors cecil-rhodes zimbabwe lobengula mashonaland matabele rhodesia shangani
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