Z

“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;”
― Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island