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Quotes About Escape

I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.
~ Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
~ C. L. R. James
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
~ Charles Guggenheim
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
~ Walter Mosley
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.
~ Edwin M. Stanton
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
~ William Cowper
And I want cabana boys named Raoul to rub warm, fragrant oil all over me, from head to toe, all over my throat and chest and my legs and arms. I want—" Theo pushed the chair back on the deck and it made a loud scraping sound. He grabbed Lucy's face and kissed her hard, then rose up and placed her on her feet, taking her hand. "Where are we going, Theo?" "Shh." He stroked her hair as he led her inside. "The name's Raoul.
~ Susan Donovan
And put me down right this minute or I'll scream bloody murder, then do the job for real!" "I already hid all the electrical appliances, and I'm not taking a shower without locking you in the closet first.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The beauty of sleep is the way the world around you disappears.
~ Susan Henderson
Now faith is not what we hereafter have we have a world resting on nothing Rest was never more than abstract since it is empty reality we cannot escape
~ Susan Howe
She buried herself so deep in the book no harm could ever find her.
~ Susan Johnson
She had spent the last six months of her senior year counting down the days, literally wrote the number on a jotter next to her bed every morning. She thought once she'd escaped that prison, her life would suddenly become fantastic, but it hadn't turned out that way.
~ Susan May
nasty things happen. That is, until the day Henry discovers the perfect hiding spot, where he discovers there are worse things than being found. Not being found. HARASSMENT DAY Edwin thought he was spending another lovely afternoon with his daughter and granddaughter. But dammit, they had followed him onto the train and they even had the audacity to get off at her station. Now they were on the platform. What could he possibly do to be rid of them? THE MONSTER RULES Harry had
~ Susan May
What happens in Montana stays in Montana, Glo.
~ Susan May Warren
another ever after, linked together at the core of who they are because it was together that they escaped a terrible fate.
~ Susan Meissner
Only one way out now. I love you, Taryn. I'm coming.
~ Susan Meissner
I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye. Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived. It wasn't like going to a store with my mom, which guaranteed a tug-of-war between what I wanted and what my mother was willing to buy me; in the library I could have anything I wanted.
~ Susan Orlean
Our visits to the library were never long enough for me. The place was so bountiful. I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye. Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived.
~ Susan Orlean
The library is an easy place to be when you have no place you need to go and a desire to be invisible.
~ Susan Orlean
Lake Michigan had tempted her. It was a clear emerald green, and she could see to the bottom. The sand looked soft.
~ Susan Power
Show me a woman who hasn't fantasized about getting in the car and leaving home, and I'll show you a woman who doesn't know how to drive.
~ Susan Sussman
You're never alone when you're reading a book.
~ Susan Wiggs