Quotes About Escape

I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do." "That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.

Ghost Story (1981) The Getaway (1972) The Godfather (1972)

Gypsies, ma! Gypsies! They've come to steal me away!

I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends' parents — suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.

It's a night out of time and a time out of place.

On a day like today, there's no friend like a book.

Because we don't have your typical gaps around here. Not gaps made of rocks or mountains. We have gaps in the world. In the space of things. So many places to lose yourself, if you believe that they're there. You can slip into the gap and never find your way out. Or maybe you don't want to find your way out.

That if she could choose, Sister Bert would dive into one of those books and never come back out again.

Of the 36 ways of avoiding disaster, running away is the best' (Old Chinese proverb, written down and kept by Agatha Christie)

One recent University of Maryland study found that unhappy people watched 20 percent more television than happy ones. Unhappy people like to escape.

We seized the opportunity to take a grown-ups-only hiking trip in Acadia National Park.

Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.

Ruby, desperately wanting not to get stuck at the table talking to her mother about the mind-numbing subject of iced finger food, decided to make a swift exit. "Mom, just gotta walk Bug." "But I already walked him an hour ago," said Sabina. "Oh yeah, well, I promised him," called Ruby, already halfway down the stairs. "Who promises a dog ?" said Sabina.

He smiled and cut her off, he felt very secure, safe, out of reach; she could threaten him but she could not find him. All she could do was call and beg and bully, but that was only because he allowed her this luxury of contact. If he chose to, he could disappear entirely, and as soon as he had executed his plan that's exactly what he would do. Wait until it has all played out, he told himself, wait for the money and the big finale and then be gone.

Ruby froze as she looked into the friendly green eyes of Baby Face Marshall. And the words of Agent Blacker came shooting back to her. If you see Baby Face, don't bother calling for Mommy, run!

RULE 79: WHAT TO DO IF YOU MEET A BEAR – WISH YOU HADN'T!

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

Max gripped Zena's hand and they ran for their lives. Their only hope was a nearby swamp. They could hide in the mud and slime, with the snakes and the snapping turtles and the razor-sharp grass. But

And they never let him go.

Dex was being sucked into the tornado, and he knew there could be no escape.

would be "captured and killed" that very night.

The date of their escape from disaster was January 10, 1580.