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Quotes About Rescue

Yeah. He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.
~ Rick Riordan
Let's assume Lu is right,' Nico said. 'You get captured and put in this cell. She lets you out. You kill the guardian, destroy the fasces, weaken Nero, hooray. Even then, and I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer —' 'I am calling you Debbie Downer from now on,' Will said gleefully. 'Shut up, Solace.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy stared at his jelly donut. He had a rocky history with Nico di Angelo. The guy had once tricked him into visiting Hades's palace, and Percy had ended up in a cell. But most of the time, Nico sided with the good guys. He certainly didn't deserve slow suffocation in a bronze jar, and Percy couldn't stand seeing Hazel in pain. We'll rescue him, he promised her. We have to. The prophecy says he holds the key to endless death.
~ Rick Riordan
Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!
~ Rick Riordan
I need to find Meg. I wiped my mouth with a shaky hand. What would the myrmekes do with her? I don't know! Tell me or I will not complete your customer service survey.
~ Rick Riordan
IOU one Roman praetor. She will be returned safely. Sit tight. Otherwise you'll be killed. XOX, the Hunters of Artemis.
~ Rick Riordan
You want her to like you. But when you rescue somebody…it complicates things. Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important. Don't…don't make my mistakes.
~ Rick Riordan
She was rescued from Poland by a priest during the war. At times of national crisis, she can be seen to cry." Jackson thought it might have been better if the priest had rescued a few Jews instead of a plaster statue.
~ Kate Atkinson
All I know is, he found out you left and he locked himself in the shed and barricaded the door. No one's seen him since, Doug said. When I bolted, Sean and Evan were trying to boost Caleb up onto the roof so he could look through the skylight and make sure the kid wasn't dead or something.
~ Kate Brian
Flora reached out and grabbed hold of William Spiver's hand, and he held on to her. It was as if he were drowning and she were standing on solid ground. According to TERRIBLE THINGS! drowning people were desperate, out of their minds with fear. In their panic they could pull you, the rescuer, under, if you weren't careful. So Flora held on tightly to William Spiver. And he held on tightly back.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Why would you save me? Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.' - A Tale of Despereaux, Kate Dicamillo - P. 81
~ Kate DiCamillo
Perhaps, he thought, it is not too late, after all, for me to be saved.
~ Kate DiCamillo
what Raymie thought as they rose to the surface together was that it was the easiest thing in the world to save somebody. For the first time, she understood Florence Nightingale and her lantern and the bright and shining path... For just a minute, she understood everything in the whole world.
~ Kate DiCamillo
You got to rescue yourself.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Where do I start? Revolutions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue.
~ Kate Elliott
I'll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens." "Yes, good, that's where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I'll meet you there." Without
~ Kate Elliott
Fairy tales ... give us hope that we can somehow be saved, rescued, healed. Transformed in some way for the better. As we travel with the fairy tale protagonist through the dark and dangerous forest, as we suffer with them and triumph with them, we follow them back into the brightness of a world renewed. Fairy tales are an instruction manual for psychological healing.
~ Kate Forsyth
I ran back dithering, chewing my hands in fright, until Arty finally allowed himself to roll slowly over and drift, belly up, toward the surface, where my short arms could reach him with the crook and tow him to the side. I patted and smoothed his water-swollen scalp and kissed his cheeks and nose and ears, weeping and begging him not to be dead because I, useless though I was, loved him.
~ Katherine Dunn
Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.
~ Katherine Paterson
Cher Ami, my savior, I grieve you, I think absurdly, eyes to the sky.
~ Kathleen Rooney
I swore an oath of peace, as well. But you know, now I think it is time to break it. I'll do anything to rescue my beloved master.
~ Kathryn Lasky
knight in shining stirrups.
~ Kathy Carmichael
When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When the hour's too late for rescue, it's still early enough for revenge
~ Kazuo Ishiguro