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Quotes About Rescue

The quest of the handsome prince was complete. He had found his fair maiden and the world had its fairytale. In her ivory tower, Cinderella was unhappy, locked away from her friends, her family and the outside world.
~ Andrew Morton
chilling start to Woolf's The Waves: I was too far out in the ocean to hear the lifeguard shouting, "Shark! Shark!
~ Andrew Sean Greer
the rescue. And today Less was one of them.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
shoelace caught in an escalator.
~ Andy Griffiths
Brynn out of there." The two exchanged a look before Rawlins turned back to him. "Look, Mallett, Wilson and me played your phone game, drove all the way back here and saved you from a couple of cops on the take, only so you could send us to fetch your girlfriend?
~ Sandra Brown
Translation: happiness becomes proximity to whiteness. Camel Gupta (2014) notes how it is sometimes assumed that brown queers and trans folk are rescued from unhappy brown families by happy white queer and trans communities. We are not a rescue mission. But when you deviate, they celebrate. Even happy brown queers would become unhappy at this point.
~ Sara Ahmed
He said I didn't need to save him. But you want to. Yeah. But I can't. Right? Probably not. Usually not.
~ Sara Zarr
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.
~ Sarah Dessen
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
~ Sarah Dessen
Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
~ Sarah Dessen
But it was even worse when you knew at that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.
~ Sarah Dessen
Friends don't leave each other in the woods. they are the one who come and take you out
~ Sarah Dessen
You're just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house, so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else-- find the boy who lit the fire in the first place, to see if you can change him.
~ Sarah Kay
We found a puppy. In the … um … backyard. Yes! The backyard! And then we … went to see if any of our neighbors lost a puppy. That's why we didn't hear you calling earlier. We were outside.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.
~ Saul Bellow
Zionism, Professor Lamm argues, is different from other kinds of nineteenth-century nationalism in that it did not originate in order to bring people back to a national homeland. "It arose in order to establish sovereignty, and hence a national home, for Jews without a home … it was a rescue movement to save a people in a critical situation by concentrating it within one territory, and allowing it to take its political fate in its own hands.
~ Saul Bellow
Rescue is the true aim of Zionism—not the "liberation" of the Promised Land but the rescue of the Jews, repeatedly threatened with annihilation.
~ Saul Bellow
That letter was your whole future, you daft prince. It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going. We save each other. That's how it works.
~ Scott Westerfeld
So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.
~ Scott Westerfeld
He squeezed her hand. Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay. But what about everybody else? He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.
~ Scott Westerfeld
du bist nicht mehr zu retten, Da du dein Elend liebst; du klirrst mit deinen Ketten Und überredest dich, es sei Musik.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When discussing wrath, we must see that God has always been a God of grace. To take away the dark side of God makes religious people mad. They want to kill somebody, so they want their god to kill somebody. But God has no desire to inflict pain or agony on anyone. He came to rescue you from sin, death and self-destruction.
~ John Crowder
But will she come in time? Oh yes just in time; whenever she comes is just in time; when we have despaired for the thousandth midnight of any such a one ever coming from anywhere, she will arrive, in a tearing hurry, breaking into or out of the last spheres of air, fire, water, earth as though throwing open the successive doors of a long corridor, down which she rushes, her hair streaming and her brow knit, her hand already beside her mouth to call into the ear of our souls Wake up.
~ John Crowley
Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay; So all were lost, which in the ship were found, They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.
~ John Donne