Gail Carson Levine Quotes

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

I like adventure.

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.

People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.

Show yourself if only for a week ... If harm comes of it I promise never to advise you again.

That's part of the dream - doing my own stunts!

I like to find adventure.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

Travel is not about money, it's about courage.

It'll be all right, my fine fellow," said the Otter. "I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.