Quotes About Escape

Coward that I am, I flee. My heart thundering, my hands shaking. But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.

He was just a reader and readers can't do anything to make a story stop - except close the book.

I ran anyway. And clutched his fingers as though he could drag me into a world where other kinds of games were possible. Hope lit my heart.

Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth?

I'd need rest to refresh my brain, and to get rest it's necessary to travel, and to travel one must have money, and in order to get money you have to work. . . . I am in a vicious circle . . .from which it is impossible to escape.

And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine, Since the world can in no way answer our craving, I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.

Cuando era niño, solía llevar a casa animales del bosque (…) Nunca logré domesticarlos, porque lo único que querían, ciega e irracionalmente, era escapar.

Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.

She was floating, arms outspread, water lapping her body, breathing in a summery fragrance of salt and coconut.

Sometimes she abrogated responsibility by fantasizing about kidnappers bursting into the house, bundling her into the back of their van, and taking her away for a long rest in a nice, cool, quiet dungeon.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Being near the sea liberates me from negativity and tension and enlightens me when I am feeling lost or confused. I feel a certain freedom when I am close to the water.

I will never stop, like Im runnin from the cops.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

Lucas went even paler. "Then you're on the track to suicide," he whispered. "Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You're already dead.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

I take it these people have some sense; they see plainly that Judge Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it, and thus it escapes.

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

I don't remember exactly when books became my refuge, but it was in the pages of a world created out of thin air that I began to find pieces I recognized as myself.

a type I would never have met, only read about in books, for books were where you found life, without the effort of being in the real world.

Reading wasn't my religion – it was my oxygen.

When I look at my books I feel like Alice in the closing pages of Wonderland, when the cards all rise up and overwhelm her.