Quotes About Escape

and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.

Time after time he[Count Olaf] had come very close to succeeding, and time after time the Baudelaire orphans had revealed his plan, and time after time he had escaped-and all Mr. Poe had ever done was cough.

No! The E aisle!" "B?" Violet asked, finding it difficult to hear over the sounds of the cabinets. "E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?

I discovered this myself when I was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs

panic. "Vireo!" Sunny cried, which meant "Let's run—or, in my case, crawl—as fast as we can!" "We'll never run fast

Count Olaf has been captured," she

Whether is was Uncle Monty's library of reptile books, or Aunt Josephine's library of grammar books, or Justice Strauss's library of law books, or, best of all their parents' library of all kinds of books - all burn up now, alas - libraries always made them feel a little better. Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Nagy sóhajjal fölvette hát azt a könyvet, amelyet az elÅ'bb Violetnek ajánlott, és mint annyiszor életében, most is az olvasásban talált menedéket a borzalmas helyzet elÅ'l.

But by immersing themselves in their favorite reading topics, they felt far away from their predicament, as if they had escaped.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Sanity, sanity Why don't you let me go? Let go, let go Cut it out

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Lately I've been falling asleep with my headphones on, the music paving over my thoughts.

Let me once get from this country and give me a dungeon or a hovel in any other").

For the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.

In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.

Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

The first requirement of a slave society is secure borders. We do not like to think of the United States as a police state, a nation like East Germany that people had to escape from, but the slaveholding states were just that. Indeed, after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it easy for whites to kidnap and sell free blacks into slavery, thousands of free African Americans realized they could not be safe even in Northern states and fled to Canada, Mexico, and Haiti.

We do not like to think of the United States as a police state, a nation like East Germany that people had to escape from, but the slaveholding states were just that.

Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face. ~ Moroccan Proverb

Mitch looked out toward the horizon. "I took up surfing because I wanted to conquer something bigger than my pa, bigger than myself. Out there, I could be free. I could forget my anger, overcome monster waves, and not hurt anyone.

I've come to whisk you away to a land far, far—well, not that far away. I've reserved a table for two on the terrace in La Jolla. And then, who knows?" He clasped her hands.

I love this, and I wish we could keep on driving," Ivy said, the wind whipping a few loose strands of hair back from her forehead that had blown from her ponytail "I haven't seen the Monterrey Peninsula or the Bay area in years. Or the wine country. I've been gone too long.