Quotes About Escape

DARKSTALKER KNOWS ABOUT ME. TRAPPED IN THE NIGHTWING PALACE. HELP!

If you don't, you'll be just another guard I have to kill on my way out. — Fierceteeth

I finally stuffed pillows in my bed and went out the same window Squorp came in, except it turns out that's a lot easier with wings, because there are these dumb hedges right out there that tried to eat me alive.

And whatever that other one can do." "Make bananas," Qibli filled in. "Absolutely terrifying. Run for your life.

Don't think about Queen Scarlet.

The ultimate test of a great team is results. And considering that tens of thousands of people escaped from the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., there can be no doubt that the teams who risked, and lost, their lives to save them were extraordinary.

he stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

Fear… is the most depressing of all the emotions; and it soon induces utter, helpless prostration, as if in consequence of, or in association with, the most violent and prolonged attempts to escape have actually been made.

The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.

You can go anywhere in books

Pirates of Penzance

A mountaintop is not simply an elevation, but an island, a world within a world, a place out of place.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is bliss

The dubious achievement in travel these days is enduring the persistent nuisance of a succession of airports in order to arrive at a distant place for a brief interlude of the exotic

To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss.

I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts

or flying over the chaos in their private helicopters.

a world of broken promises, a land to flee.

The dubious achievement in travel these days is enduring the persistent nuisance of a succession of airports in order to arrive at a distant place for a brief interlude of the exotic, maintaining the delusion that it is travel. This is the equivalent of being measured like a projectile and being shot out of a cannon, and that's how most of us feel in such a state, like a human cannonball, dazed and confused, in the company of other cannonballs.

I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace