Quotes About Escape

He'd once overheard his mom telling her best friend, Judy, "Almost everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

It had been fun, yes, and had provided a fleeting sense of happiness. Like a miniature vacation from the sorrow.

There was something peaceful about an untouched fall of snow. Like being in another world, where nothing can go wrong. Because nothing can find you.

Nearly everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

At night, she whispered into the pipes: I hate it here. Please take me away, let me be something other than Marya, something magical, with a round belly. Frighten me, make me cry, only come back.

A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

The Marquess laughed her knife-like laugh again. "Do you think Fairyland loves you? That it will keep you close and dear, because you are a good girl and I am not? Fairyland loves no one. It has no heart. It doesn't care. It will spit you back out just like it did me.

Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and because she had a mole on her left cheek, and because her feet were very large and ungainly, the Green Wind took pity on her and flew to her window one evening just after her twelfth birthday.

Come forward. Come in from the summer heat and the flies. Come in from that assault on all senses, that pummelling of rod and cone and drum and cilia. Come in from the great spotlight of the sun, sweeping across the white sands, making everyone, and therefore no one, a star. Come inside and meet the prologue.

She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.

Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.

He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.

I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.

Perhaps he was like a horse rescued from a barn on fire, who runs back into his burning stall simply because the place is familiar.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.

Numinbah Valley

Una fuga, ha sido, una fuga. He corrido a través de la vida, sin entender nada de ella.

Watch for when he goes," she whispered. "Then come over to my bedroom. I'll be waiting, darling. Run!

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.