Quotes About Escape

Books are an amazing thing. Anyone who thinks of them as an escape from reality or as something you should get your nose out of and go outside and play, or as merely a distraction or an amusement or a waste of time is - dead wrong. Books are the most important the most powerful the most beautiful thing humans have ever created.

They're saying it's some sort of biological weapon," Colin said. "They're saying it escaped from a laboratory.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.

Ludzie mówiÄ…, ?e ksi??ki sÄ… azylem od tego Å›wiata, i majÄ… racjÄ™.

People will go to strange lengths to avoid the suffering they have coming.

You might think you could run away and change your name and I don't know what all. Start over. And then one mornin' you wake up and look at the ceilin' and guess who's layin' there?

There was no wind and the silence out there was greatly favored by every kind of fugitive as was the open country itself and no mountains close at hand for enemies to black themselves against.

You would give up your dreams in order to escape your nightmares and I would not. I think it's a bad bargain.

But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.

Your only real safety would be in disappearing.

I'm a fugitive from the ways of this world. I'd be a fugitive from my mind if I had me some snow.

Did you want her to kill herself? No. I wanted her to be free. Do you think that's freedom? Maybe not. But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.

I know certain days of your childhood. All but weeping with loneliness. Coming upon a certain book in the library and clutching it to you. Carrying it home. Some perfect place to read it. Under a tree perhaps. Beside a stream. Flawed youths of course. To prefer a world of paper. Rejects.

It's not so much that I don't believe in it. I don't subscribe to its nomination. If fate is the law then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility.

a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.

You know my sister married a boy from Winston-Salem. And I thought to myself: I really need to get out of this town.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

Please, she whispered as she opened the book, please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. Because fear kills everything, Mo had once told her. Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through....