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Quotes About Escape

Looking for Narnia? You're in the wrong universe
~ Melissa de la Cruz
There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I'm watching you, Josh," she said. "So are the police. You can't hide anymore. You're going to have to keep looking over your shoulder, wherever you go now, because they will come for you soon, and when they do, I will be there to watch.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Stories were so easy to control. Lady Lynx escaped because Zenobia created an escapable situation, and if anything unexpected happened to her characters, Zenobia had a clever plan to get them out of their new fix.
~ Meljean Brook
Debía cruzarlo y llegar a Bolivia, a Perú, al Amazonas. A la mierda, se dijo, pero ahora mismo. (...) -Mire, viejo: acábela, ¿quiere? Me voy a donde se me canta el culo, y me voy ya, ¿estamos?
~ Mempo Giardinelli
She just dropped it and ran!!
~ Mercedes
She couldn't catch you anyways!
~ Mercedes
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Home is a room dappled with firelight: there are pictures and books. And when the rain sighs, and the acorns fall, there are patterns of leaves against the drawn curtains. Home is where I was safe. Home is what I fled from.
~ Mervyn Peake
I've got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
~ Beatrice Sparks
sees them trapped and they are rescued by Benjamin's
~ Beatrix Potter
Nature was th eplace where one could escape the world of man made constuctions of race and identity.
~ bell hooks
In popular culture love is always the stuff of fantasy. Maybe this is why men have done most of the theorizing about love. Fantasy has primarily been their domain, both in the sphere of cultural production and in everyday life. Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape.
~ bell hooks
While the poor are offered addiction as a way to escape thinking too much, working people are encouraged to shop.
~ bell hooks
male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape
~ bell hooks
Maybe this is why men have one most of the theorizing about love. Fantasy has primarily been their domain, both in the sphere of cultural production and in everyday life. Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape.
~ bell hooks
Grant was torn loose from his foot restraints and went sailing across the bridge, optic fibers popping loose.
~ Ben Bova
Many in Europe saw an opportunity to escape the oppressive and overbearing governmental systems under which they languished, and these people emigrated in droves, bringing with them a strong determination to make a better life for themselves and their offspring, unfettered by oppressive overseers disguised as government.
~ Ben Carson
But, after a while, I actually began to enjoy reading those books, because we were very poor. But between the covers of those books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
~ Ben Carson
What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.
~ Ben Elton
Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
~ Ben Marcus
That was why he was thinking about vultures. He was thinking that he wanted to run, but that he did not want to feed the vultures. Do not get caught. Rule number one in the army, and the only rule that mattered. Because if you got caught the bastards would flog you to death or else reorganize your ribs with musket balls, and either way the vultures got fat.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Leo hurried up to bed and hid under the covers. Under the covers he thought his life through. Although he soon fell asleep he could not sleep her out of his mind. He woke, beating his breast. Though he prayed to be rid of her, his prayers went unanswered. Through days of torment he endlessly struggled not to love her; fearing success, he escaped it. He then concluded to convert her to goodness, himself to God. The idea alternately nauseated and exalted him.
~ Bernard Malamud