Quotes About Escape

Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.

The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Poppypap's a passport out

Thalatta! Thalatta!

There are not many places left in the United States where people can get off the computer, stop filing tax returns, and in effect become invisible. The rain forests in the Cascades and parts of West Montana come to mind, and perhaps the 'Glades still offer hope to those who wish to resign from modern times. The other place is the Atchafalaya Basin.

The gift of Morpheus brought not only sleep but oblivion.

Not yet, Shryne said, as if to himself Then you're his apprentice? His eyes darted right and left, searching for some means of escape. Is Sidious also in league with Emperor Palpatine? Vader fell silent for a moment, making up his mind about something. Lord Sidious is the Emperor.

Good," the Emperor said. "Let that be a lesson to all of them"—he narrowed his eyes at Tarkin—"including the one who apparently got away.

He buried money in distant hotel rooms, carried tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, around in a suitcase; he kept wads of cashier's checks in his wallet. He always had a back door, a quick exit, a way of getting out, because behind the boarded-up windows of his life, the Godfather's fear of having nothing was overwhelming in its ability to swallow him whole and send him into a series of wild behaviors.

We will destroy you," the Flyboys droned. "You have no escape." That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these 'droids to say? "Talk about lame," Fang muttered.

I stood my ground. You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out. Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy. Dang, I'm good.

It is my time. The time of maximum ride...

The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways.

Listen up," I said urgently. "It's time to round up your gear. I'm gonna check in with Patrick, and then we're getting the flock out of here." Ha-ha.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

Yeah," said Iggy. "But what now? Let's do something fun." I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane scientists wasn't enough fun for him. Kids today are so spoiled.

James Patterson

Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.

Get-out-of-the-house-NOW-because-he's-calling-you-from-downstairs-and-has-a-chainsaw scared.

What we do know is that Aaron Hernandez was an escape artist. On the football field, no one could catch him. In Florida, he was a few steps removed from a terrible shooting that no one had answered for. In Boston, he almost certainly committed a double murder that he got away with. And when Aaron was caught, and convicted, for Odin Lloyd's murder, he continued to find new ways to escape. By killing himself, he escaped a long life behind bars.