Quotes About Escape

Why was she sitting in a tree?" "She was hiding from the organ thieves." Ric blinked. "Sorry?" "Do you really want me to explain it?" "Not particularly.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run." --Alyss

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

Listen up," I said urgently. "It's time to round up your gear. I'm gonna check in with Patrick, and then we're getting the flock out of here." Ha-ha.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.

Books are a time machine.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.

I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.