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Quotes About Escape

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
~ Jane Austen
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
~ Jane Austen
And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
~ Jane Austen
Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
~ Jane Austen
May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away.
~ Jane Austen
In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there
~ Jane Austen
I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.
~ Jane Austen
She regained the street--happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.
~ Jane Austen
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world.
~ Jane Austen
But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable slyness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet.
~ Jane Austen
There is no enjoyment like reading!
~ Jane Austen
There is no other enjoyment like reading
~ Jane Austen
Alcohol made me beautiful in a way I never felt the rest of the time.
~ Jane Green
The place she felt happiest, the place she found her solace and joy, was in the pages of books. She
~ Jane Green
She doesn't think, doesn't worry, has no anxiety. She feels no pressure when she is in her garden. She can weed for hours, losing all sense of time until her back starts to hurt and she remembers all the other things she has to do.
~ Jane Green
As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books--the one true love of my life when growing up.
~ Jane Green, Bookends
cats swore that they had pretended to be domesticated to protect themselves—any cat who lived with a human did so under duress, and all cats escaped whenever they could.
~ Jane Smiley
There were no toys under the bed--that wasn't why he liked it. Why he liked it was that there wasn't anything under the bed--no chickens, no Joey, no Eloise, no sheep, no nos. He could lie under the bed and not be told anything at all.
~ Jane Smiley
What you did when you wanted to get away with something was not to plan, but to look for an opportunity
~ Jane Smiley
Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.
~ Jane Yolen
Somewhere becomes a nightmare. I knock on no doors, make no phone calls. Nowhere becomes my destination. You can find it on the blank spaces of any free map in any old store. Just turn a corner of your mind, and it's there.
~ Jane Yolen
Omygod, I haven't got years. I'll have to hide in the Bat Cave." "Once you go to the Bat Cave it's forever, babe." Eeek.
~ Janet Evanovich
Stop the planet. I want to get off.
~ Janet Evanovich
Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while
~ Janet Evanovich