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Quotes About Escape

I would imagine being tied up and put in a haystack while someone put the dry, stale straw ablaze. I would picture it perfectly while rocking on my hand. The daydream was about struggling to get free while the fire burned hotter and closer. I am not sure if I came when the fire reached me or after I had imagined escaping it. But I came. I orgasmed on my hand to the dream of fire.
~ Dorothy Allison
I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be.
~ Dorothy Allison
She caught up her purse and she ran, ran as if she raced with Death, and as if Death were the fleeter of foot.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Escape into self-destruction by all means; but not until your duty is done.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Of course. You have always tried to escape.' 'And I have always harmed the friends who have tried to stop me,' Lymond said. His voice was uninflected. He added, 'I have tried many times to warn you not to come too close to me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He shrugged. "One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Meanwhile Sir Wat Scott of Buccleuch was riding westward from Edinburgh, free at last of the Governor's councils, and leaving behind him his good friend Tom Erskine, a distraught smuggler, and a depressed pig.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Lymond said, very softly, in English, 'This is part of a plan to escape. Pretend to strike me, and listen.' 'You stinking catamite,' said Jerott; and with all his considerable strength launched a blow at Lymond's face which was very genuine indeed.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I regret Richard isn't with you. No matter. God hath a thousand hand?s to chastise and I have two—how can Richard escape us both?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
~ Douglas Adams
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
~ Douglas Adams
Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made attempts to alert mankind to the danger; but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived.
~ Douglas Adams
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you are in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner, please, don't hesitate to get lost.
~ Douglas Adams
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.
~ Douglas Adams
Come," he said, sweeping through the door to where Miss Janice Pearce sat glaring at a pencil, "let us go. Let us leave this festering hellhole. Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
~ Douglas Adams
If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives.
~ Douglas Adams
There was only one ambition that anyone on the planet ever had, and that was to leave.
~ Douglas Adams
She had nearly said, "Over what?," but at that moment she realized that if she said that she would have to listen to his reply, which would be bound to infuriate her into arguing back. It occurred to her for the first time that the only way of escaping was just not to get drawn into these arguments. If she simply did not respond this time, then she was free to leave. She tried it. She felt a sudden freedom. She left. A week later, in much the
~ Douglas Adams
In order to fly,all one must do is simply miss the ground
~ Douglas Adams
The other was small, roundish, and moved with an ungainly restlessness, like a number of elderly squirrels trying to escape from a sack. His own age was on the older side of completely indeterminate. If
~ Douglas Adams
A second later and they would have been dead." "Yeah, so if you'd taken the trouble to think about the problem a bit longer it would have gone away.
~ Douglas Adams
but do you really think it's wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitchhikers.
~ Douglas Adams
I'm afraid you cannot leave,' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.
~ Douglas Adams