4 Quotes Tagged: adventure-fiction

In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.

As for me, I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a bit, and maybe my hitch in the dungeons of Amber reminded me somewhat of the quality of human suffering. I do not know. I only know that I could not pass by the hurt I saw on the form of someone much like someone who had once been a friend.

Tommy sniffed the spring breeze like a supercilious stag.