Quotes About Escape

A doorway is a hopeless hiding place.

Debería haber pensado antes en tomar un taxi, porque no hay como desplazarse en un vehículo manejado por otro para salir de uno mismo.

Reading is another way we survive. It helps to know where we came from, how we got here. And most of all, for me, even though these low and empty islands are all I have ever known, when I open the front cover of a new book, it's like a door, and I can travel far away in place and time.

I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me.

Books turn out to be pretty durable if they're kept away from damp and rats. They can last hundreds of years, easy. Reading is another way we survive. It helps to know where we came from, how we got here. And most of all, for me, even thought these low and empty islands are all I have ever known, when I open the front cover of a new book, it's like a door, and I can travel far away in place and time.

Flight from life does not free us from the law of age and death.

He melded into the crowd, sidling around them so they wouldn't look at his singed butt, and the more he thought about it the more he realized he was glad he hadn't had access to his badge. He retrieved his clothing and the saddlebag and melded into the night.

I fear I lose myself among books. I forget everything.

I believe half of a writer's job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about another world that entertains you and informs you.

A cornered animal is almost as dangerous as a wounded one.

impossible to hide. Every word had led him closer to what was unnameable and appalling. What he had been trying for so many years to repress. Now escape was no longer an option. He felt the morning air fill his lungs as he walked as fast as he could. His heart was pounding in

The truth is like the waiting jaws of a monster, a more menacing monster than I'll ever be. It yawns beneath your feet, and you can't escape it, and as soon as you drop, it chews you to pieces.

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Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

I want it all to go away. I want to go away. I don't want to be here. I don't want to be in this suspended state where I can see what's happening, where I'm aware of what I'm feeling without being able to actually feel it. I cannot scream until my throat hurts or break a window with my fist until my hand bleeds, or pull my hair out in clumps until the pain in my scalp overcomes the one in my heart.

I didn't believe it was happening. But it was. Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief.

I wasn't in danger today," I tell him in a choked voice. "I escaped danger today." And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn't even known I was in. "I escaped," I repeat.

I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one

Look, Winged Wonder. Get me out of here, then we'll hammer out the details about where I'm staying. Okay?" "Winged Wonder," he said, nodding. "I find that I do not mind that one. It fits." "Captain Modesty fits better," she muttered. "I disagree. Winged Wonder is clearly the better choice for a man such as me." -Annabelle and Zacharel

I think I need to avoid the world today. There's no way I can adult.