Quotes About Escape

and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all, the wilderness of books in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a sort of instinct as sure as that which leads a fly to a honey-pot, and, finding many novels, she read her fill. This amusement lightened many heavy hours, peopled the silent house with troops of friends, and, for a time, was the joy of her life.

The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cosy chairs, the globes and, best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wader where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the workaday world again.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again

to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.

Mademoiselle, you are an angel! exclaimed Vetrey. Have no fear of further molestation, this gentleman's time is up, he'll never trouble you again for I shall guard him till he is shot tomorrow. A convict's doom, Mademoiselle, and from it there is no escape.

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

He spent winters at the Villa Henriette in Monte Carlo, which had a beautiful view of the Mediterranean.

Though he considered establishing a weekend house or summer hideaway, he had no exact plan.

I think it would do you good to get away from the office and get your mind off business for a while.

Since I've been pretty much treading water all day, the marquee of the Rialto Theatre looks like the prow of a ship coming to save me.

I'm glad I can still sometimes drug my senses with a book.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world.

He will go to sea, where there are no emperor, no wars.

we always feel our reality isn't enough. So we consume drugs and give ourselves artificial memories; we want to escape from the confinement of our lives. But I assure you that the only way to resolve the conflict is to learn to accept it and find your own place in the world.

Entonces la loca de la casa, harta de tus desprecios de viejo bobo, se marcha con el tío Celerino a buscar cerebros más elásticos.

No better stress reliever than to sit down and write! Let your imagination take you to other places and another time!

I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. (The Writer's Kitchen)

So then Joseph knew that he had no idea how to escape from the darkness closing round him, unless it might be to engineer his own death,...

It was a Friday night. I was tooling home from the Mexican border in a light blue convertible and a dark blue mood.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.