Quotes About Escape

Books! To fling myself into a book, to be carried away to another world while being at my most grounded, on my butt or in my bed or favorite chair, is literally how I have survived being here at all.

Then enter a program that gets me out of this wretched asshole of a midden system.

I like opera just fine; it's people I wanted to get away from." As

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass. Because we cannot deal with the complexity of the present, we often over-ride it and live in a simplified dream of the future. Because we cannot solve our own problems right here at home, we talk about problems out there in the world. An escape process goes on from the intolerable burden we have placed upon ourselves.

silently against Michelle's robust shoulder, until I learned that tears were of no value. There was no escape for us from the dank walls and rigid

It was his own soul he was exploring, the one territory from which there was no escape, the one enemy which must always be faced, sooner or later, more certain than anything else in life or death.

Dai Tregarron had called her Olwen, had spoken to her as if she were a creature capable of escape from the commonplace, not the pedestrian, middle-aged woman everyone else saw, incapable of imagination, even less of passion. He had seen who she wanted to be and given the dream a moment's life.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams & from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

You don't have to take upon yourself the burden of murder or madness to be free of this place. Surly there must be other ways.

I can walk through a myth and out of it!

Let me try to tell my stories,' Marius said. 'Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

All I want here is a certain space, a certain peace. Or not to be here at all.

It was the spacious garden I loved to paint above all, with no painted frame to set it apart from our world with its dancing figures and bending laurels. It was the familiar garden. For I imagined I could escape into it with my mind.

books, they offer one hope—that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.

And books, they offer one hope—that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.

He found me here," I said, "And I don't even know where I am. He found me here, and he can find me anywhere, and each time, as I told you, he takes a little more blood.

I felt I saw an escape from desolation, only it was cold and dark, this escape, and it led by twists and turns into a world of eternal darkness where the raw earth gave the only smell to one's hands, one's skin, one's clothes.

Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

But before we cut to Present Time, let me have my little fantasy. I need it (Chapter 1).