Quotes About Escape

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

I will probably be caught again, because that's what happens to criminals in this universe. And maybe I will escape once more." He shrugged. "Maybe I will not be caught again, though." He looked at her, surprised not at her but at something in himself. "I was no I before, but now there is a reason to stay free. I will not be caught again. There is a reason." "What is it, Butcher?" "Because I am," he said softly, "and you are.

Pasha stalk beside, my monster fabulous and tame, and be like fleeing every worry to a secret hush.

But life as herself, inhabiting her own body and mind, which had also seemed so mysterious and elusive, was nothing but another locked room. There was no way in or out. Even if you could escape, you'd be in another locked room: this fucked-up world, which you could get out of easily enough, but never get back into (as far as she knew) once you left.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

I felt better when I got there. I don't know what it is about a beach - the drifty, fake-coconut scent of suntan lotion, the endless whoosh of little waves lapping the shore, or the way the sun beats down so bright and hot, you feel too baked to think - but when I was there, I could almost forget everything. I floated in the cool water, too tired to actually swim, then flopped down on a towel and read. I read a lot." -Stella

Catch me if you can -A

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.

A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

His heart is pounding and when he kisses her it is as if the whole of Riyadh disappears – the wide sky, the hard surface of the roof, the date palms and the water wells.

Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

She'd also liked being within a wall of books. There, she'd felt as close to safe as she could remember

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

Miami's like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we're gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.