Quotes About Escape

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

She could see it so clear. She could picture every room, inside every house. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.

Get out of here, and do your little life, but remember I'm watching you, Raymond Hessel, and I'd rather kill you than see you working a shit job for just enough money to buy cheese and watch television.

It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive.

By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Driving east, I'm not sure what we're running from. Evie or the police of Mr. Baxter or the Rhea sisters. Or nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up, getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.

We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

I won­der if run­ning is just an­oth­er fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a prob­lem I can't re­mem­ber.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.

Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality .

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.

Todo apóstol o discípulo, cuando está corriendo detrás de su salvador, también está corriendo para escapar de otra cosa.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death

Todas las drogas cosméticas, dijo, todos los estabilizadores del ánimo y antidepresivos, solamente tratan los síntomas de los grandes problemas. Todas las adicciones, le contó, no eran más que formas de tratar un mismo problema. Las drogas, el exceso de comida, el alcohol o el sexo, todo era una simple forma de encontrar la paz. De escapar de lo que conocemos. De nuestra educación. Eran nuestro mordisco a la manzana.

y estamos sin control ni salvación ni dirección ni escapatoria, y estamos muertos.

Every apostle or disciple, Mrs. Clark says, as much as they're running to follow their savior - they're running just as hard to escape something else.

Books were usually a way for her to power her own brain down and borrow someone else's for a while.

Han grins and laughs and tries not to get crushed. "C'mon, Chewie. Set new coordinates. It's time to get you home.

Hey, pal. You still know how to contact the other refugees? Roshyk, Hrrgn, Kirratha, and them?" Group of a half-dozen Wookiees who escaped Kessel and got away from the Empire when nobody else could. Group of the meanest, hairiest brutes.