Quotes About Escape

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

story of a philosopher who runs when a bear charges him and his friend.

It's no good, you'll never outrun a bear," says the logical friend.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

I had opened a book that could not be closed, started a story that had no obvious conclusion. It was a tale in which I wanted to play no part.

Oh ! S'il avait pu partir, tout de suite, n'importe où, et ne jamais revenir, ne jamais écrire, ne jamais laisser savoir ce qu'il était devenu ! Mais non, il fallait rentrer, rentrer dans la maison paternelle et se coucher dans son lit

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a thing in it. The thing might have been a sandwich at some point, or an animal, or a human hand...but what it was now was fuzzy and putrid. A minute later, Ginny was down the stairs, out the door, and gone.

I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape, the police would say in the APB. Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.

Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows.

It's true. All the money, all the power - none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.

Yeah," Nate said. "I guess it would be like that if I could go somewhere in a book. I always wanted stories to be real, so I started writing my own. That seemed to make it more real.

the money, all the power—none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.

She had a fondness for headphones and screens and ducking away.

I wrote the first book and then I forgot how to write. It used to be that I would sit and write and I would go into some other world—I could see it all. I was totally in another place. But the second it became something I had to do, something in me broke. It's like I used to know the way to some magical land and I lost the map.

This is why I prefer books to people." "We love you too," Janelle said.

The air is pure under the ground. There is no odor of men.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it... John Galt

When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby.