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Quotes About Escape

The easiest thing in the world to do when you don't want to look inside yourself is to find escape hatches. You can always make it someone else's fault, it takes a lot of courage to admit that the fault -- or rather the responsibility -- is yours alone. And yet, as I've said before, this is the only way to go forward. If life's a road we travel, it's uphill all the way.
~ Susanna Tamaro
As long as I've got a book, it doesn't matter where I am. I can instantly be a million miles away, in a completely different place, on a different planet even. I can be someone else, you know? When it gets too complicated to be myself.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
~ Suzanne Collins
Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.
~ Suzanne Collins
I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out.
~ Suzanne Collins
We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly. "What?" I ask. "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale. I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous.
~ Suzanne Collins
Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.
~ Suzanne Collins
If he dies, I'll never go home. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.
~ Suzanne Collins
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .
~ Suzanne Collins
Panic begins to set in. I can't stay here. Flight is essential… But I can't let my fear show.
~ Suzanne Collins
Coriolanus to the rescue, Livia to the nearest exit.
~ Suzanne Collins
Tiny, searing stabs. Wherever the droplets of mist touch my skin. "Run!" I scream at the others. "Run!" Finnick snaps awake instantly, rising to counter an enemy. But when he sees the wall of fog, he tosses a still-sleeping Mags onto his back and takes off. Peeta is on his feet but not as alert. I grab his arm and begin to propel him through the jungle after Finnick.
~ Suzanne Collins
The phrase Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free is the most troubling because at first you think he's talking about when he told her to flee, presumably to safety. But then you wonder if he meant for her to run to him. To death.
~ Suzanne Collins
They might. But you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,
~ Suzanne Collins
donde te pedí huir y en libertad juntos correr»
~ Suzanne Collins
Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free.
~ Suzanne Collins
He's fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it's hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. But the adrenaline pumping through my body would never allow me to follow him, so I can't let him go. I just can't.
~ Suzanne Collins
Flee from what you can't fight.
~ Suzanne Collins
hovercraft appears and takes
~ Suzanne Collins
We got them all out. Except Enobaria. But since she's from Two, we doubt she's being held anyway. Peeta's at the end of the hall. The effects of the gas are just wearing off. You should be there when he wakes." Peeta. Alive and well — maybe not well but alive and here. Away from Snow. Safe. Here. With me. In a minute I can touch him. See his smile. Hear his laugh. Haymitch's grinning at me. "Come
~ Suzanne Collins
becoming overrun with refugees. At this rate, Tigris may have new houseguests by lunch. It was good for everybody that we got out when we did. It's brighter now, even with the snow
~ Suzanne Collins
i'm very hard to catch, and if they can't catch me they can't kill me so don't count me out.
~ Suzanne Collins