As a little girl I always expected that one day adventure would happen to me—someday a tornado would whisk me away to Oz, or I’d fall down a rabbit hole, or David Bowie would kidnap me and take me to his labyrinth where he’d sing me songs and feed me magic peaches. (I still sorta wish David Bowie would kidnap me, but that’s beside the point.) As I get older, I realize you have to make adventure happen for yourself. I hope this cookbook helps you, dear reader, to make some tasty adventures for yourself—and maybe throw some really awesome LARP parties.
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will you still hold me tonight
and if I open my heart to you
and show... PINK FLOYD I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare... JOHN DONNE Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I beg... CATE TIERNAN Something about you caught me by surprise Though I always knew you’d be my demise. R.S. GREY I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would t... SUE WHITAKER I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would h... SCOTT THOMPSON I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know?... DARLENE LOVE I always knew that looking back on my tears would someday make me laugh, but I never knew that looki... UNKNOWN I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody fel... MATT GROENING She told me it would be good to get away for a day and clear my mind, so we went to Great Adventure.... BRUCE PERRY I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me. UDAY KIRAN As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bi... CLIVE OWEN As an actor, you want to do something challenging. And I wanted something that would break me out of... JOSEPH GANNASCOLI I still remember the time you were almost mine. The time I almost told I loved you, but I just could... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to thi... COURTNEY LOVE Obviously, I'm very busy right now, but it means a lot to me. I would love to do it, and I wish that... FRANK SPOTNITZ I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do some... SAMMI HANRATTY If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would... MARISSA MEYER Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could... SCOTTIE PIPPEN The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came ba... CHARLES DICKENS I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of h... LILLIAN GISH I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your c... COURTENEY COX I thought about him going into my mom's room when she as little and holding up her report card and s... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some cr... GARY OLDMAN It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth. JUSTIN ANDERSON Who would have thought, that one day you would need my help. I remember when I asked you for the sam... LITTLE DEVIL I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me. JANDY NELSON Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as ... CHARLIE TAHAN Some things happen, and this will make me mentally stronger. I've always had a lot of faith in God a... RUDY JARAMILLO I need to find some answers, fast. Would you call your doctor and make an appointment for me? ESTHER WILLIAMS Well it's not really a mystery. It was the day I met you, that's when. You've changed me, Rook. You ... J.A. HUSS This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would... TAHEREH MAFI I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong wi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai... SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. I had a chance to make some plays happen. My teammates have trusted me since the day they accepted m... FLIP MURRAY An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I ... THOMAS CAMPBELL I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Al... EMRAAN HASHMI I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond gir... LARA STONE Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y... EDMONIA LEWIS At some point, I would just love to sit down and have a conversation with him and say 'Bruce, what h... BILL WARGO His name is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would you like to meet him? TONY VISCONTI I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye. ANE KRSTEVSKA An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sur... THOMAS CAMPBELL [But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I a... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS He hadn’t treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and som... ASPEN MATIS I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the gl... JEFF SAMPSON when i was younger i love to pick up mud and shove it in my brothers face he would get so mad at me ... DALLY SALAD If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to y... ANNE STUART When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I... NEIL GAIMAN I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. MARLO THOMAS Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't... KRISTEN SCHAAL I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a h... JAMES ARTHUR Would you be shedding tears for McNab’s dead body if he’d been screwing around on you?” <... J.D. ROBB Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an... JOHN GREEN Why’d you want to have sex with me? To have a f*cking adventure? What was I supposed to be? Your o... KATY EVANS I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. B... RICHARD FEYNMAN I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me. THOMAS HARRIS I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in t... ISABEL ALLENDE It would make me a more cautious and maybe me a little smarter that you shouldn't do that unless you... DAVE CHRISTIAN I would have liked for someone to have challenged me and jumped a little bit closer so that I could ... DWIGHT PHILLIPS Nothing would make me happier. I know that program inside and out. That's a ways off and a lot can h... BUD OGDEN I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, Go... JONATHAN HARRIS For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of y... SANHITA BARUAH This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giv... DAVID BENIOFF David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver. HEDI SLIMANE As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to th... ABBY WAMBACH I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh. VINCENT VAN GOGH I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this lette... SOPHIE HANNAH I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point w... YUNA i misss the days you would hold me tight love me dear kiss me soft and whisper in my ears those litt... HASSAN OLANREWAJU I wish they would only take me as I am. VINCENT VAN GOGH [...] "Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Grey, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a par... BLACK ELK Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and ad... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Rats! There goes the bell... oh, how I hate lunch hours! I always have to eat alone because nobody l... CHARLES M. SCHULZ My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write... TWINKLE KHANNA I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a co... BOB BEAMON I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself ... PETER S. BEAGLE When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me inv... MILAN KUNDERA But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g... ELIZABETH GILBERT He would sing Rent songs to me. He told me how much he really loved musical theatre, which you would... IDINA MENZEL If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would w... BEN PLATT I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen, that she is go... VERONICA ROTH I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballg... JEAN LOUISA KELLY I wasn't notified at all. They say they tried to contact me. I was right down there at work. Thought... ERIC WOODS Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a... HUGH PRATHER I know that in this province, the buck would have stopped with me, ... I would first of all, if they... RALPH KLEIN It's hard for me to get good work. You don't see me more because it's hard for me to find stuff that... HOLLY HUNTER Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ... ST. AUGUSTINE My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make... DAVID MCCULLOUGH If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for St... GARTH STEIN It just ticks me off. I never in a million years thought it would happen to me. DEAN DEFORD If I jumped higher than high,
would you still jump with me?
If I ran faster than fast,
would you sti... KIRPA RAI I don't know why my car takes to this racetrack. It's just a magic, magic place to me. I swear I cou... GREG ANDERSON
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"We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, rea... CASSANDRA CLARE Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be ... CASSANDRA CLARE Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It... CASSANDRA CLARE Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideo... CASSANDRA CLARE Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clear... CASSANDRA CLARE If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all? CASSANDRA CLARE You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There w... CASSANDRA CLARE It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. ... CASSANDRA CLARE Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate? CASSANDRA CLARE Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if y... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approac... CASSANDRA CLARE What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Cou... CASSANDRA CLARE Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assum... CASSANDRA CLARE So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. "Wha... CASSANDRA CLARE What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name CASSANDRA CLARE Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You ... CASSANDRA CLARE I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in so... CASSANDRA CLARE If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you CASSANDRA CLARE My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health. CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle snorted, "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon." "... CASSANDRA CLARE Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a minister... CASSANDRA CLARE And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This o... CASSANDRA CLARE Take off your shirt." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to attack you," she said i... CASSANDRA CLARE Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. CASSANDRA CLARE I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill ... CASSANDRA CLARE aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things... CASSANDRA CLARE Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it? CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin... CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th... CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o... CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi... CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ... CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ... CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Fil... CASSANDRA CLARE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou... CASSANDRA CLARE In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter... CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s... CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be. CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be. CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ... CASSANDRA CLARE It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me... CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l... CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it. CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places. CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that... CASSANDRA CLARE If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be... CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.” “I just wo... CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better. CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia... CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door... CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul... CASSANDRA CLARE