Quotes About Escape

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

I heard this story once, she said, where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff about the universe and everythin' from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge. What incredibly clever stuff do you know about the universe, Gytha Ogg? said Granny. Bugger all, said Nanny cheerfully. Then we'd better bloody well escape right now.

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.

The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.

In a well-organized world he might have landed on a fire escape, but the fire escapes were unknown in Ankh-Morpork and the flames generally had to leave via the roof.

fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.

Nobby had survived any number of famous massacres by not being there.

This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.

Come on. Let's run away. Where to? Rincewind sighed. He'd tried to make his basic philosophy clear time and again, and people never got the message. Don't you worry about to, he said. In my experience that always takes care of itself. The important word is away.

Haven't you noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?" "Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that, too," said Rincewind. "That's the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.

Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.

Rincewind let his breath out in a long sigh. It hurried off to hide somewhere.

Hell, there are times when I'd like to run away from my family.

He's here to take revenge. A third shot thunders and I dart toward the blackness of the bush, am almost to the perimeter wire when I stumble over something and go down on my knees. I feel warm flesh, long tangled hair. And blood. One of the blondes. Instantly I'm back on my feet, fleeing blindly into the night. Hear bells clang as my boot snags the perimeter wire. The next bullet comes so close I can hear it whistle past.

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

Ha volna idÅ'm és merészelnék ennyire eltérni a tárgytól, írnék egy külön fejezetet az elsÅ' kancsó sörrÅ'l, amelyet angol földön iszik meg az ember. Ó, milyen jól esik! Érdemes elmenni egy esztendÅ're hazulról, csak azért, hogy ezt az elsÅ' kortyot élvezzük.

There's a hole in my pocket," Ringo puzzled. "Maybe that's the way out?

She knew the truth: that Frankenstein had created a female monster, and that the female monster had escaped. And she hid that truth. Knowing of Justine, she did the best she could, for another woman. She erased her from the story.

What followed then was what invariably follows in the wake of every tortured consciousness. From what it dreads or hates, yet knows or feels to be unescapable, it takes refuge in that which may be hoped for—or at least imagined.

guess sometimes the world's too much to live with and a body sort of has to turn away from it to rest.

He couldn't handle men. All his life he had run away from humans and what they represented to him. He was like a frightened child when men closed in on him.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

I just wanted to jump out of my body sometimes and be someone else.