Quotes About Escape

Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.

books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

I said something to Carl about the snow, but he wasn't much concerned. Maybe he figured if I got lost and died in the snow he could escape school a while longer.

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)

Nada era verdaderamente insoportable si se tenía algo que leer.

I have a lifelong habit for dealing with dejection: I leave town. I first ran away from home at three. Mother helped pack my bag.

I'll have you know that inside of this body is a skinny woman yelling to escape, but I've quite successfully pacified her with Fritos.

I do what I always do. I go outside to get some air. Seems like I'm always trying to get some air.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn't all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I'd like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

No wonder fairies run away from pain. They like to be entertained, and it's awfully boring.

A veces me siento como si los libros fueran lo único que hace que valga la pena vivir

if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.

There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

Fugi. De repente, eu vi que não podia mais, me governou um desgosto.