Quotes About Escape

I play videogames all the time on the plane.

I love playing videogames.

I like watching anime or music videos and stuff like that, just to get my mind somewhere else, to make it feel like I'm not in the arena, not in the gym, so when I step on the court, I'm locked in.

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.

As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack. I made constant escape plans and imagined a life going from port to port.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

?After we?re finished here, darling,? she asked, just loudly enough for him to hear over the commotion, ?could we possible find a place where someone doesn?t want to shoot you?

How careful she always was with books: they had been her companions, her entertainment, and her only window to the outside world.

i've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily

I would rather be thrown in a fiery pit of hell than return to Wales," Unable to tolerate him for another second, Helen stood and said coolly, "I'm sure that can be arranged, Mr. Vance.

I'm going to your mother, y'see... she's got 'em to leave a back door open... so I can steal into 'eaven.

Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two in my past, it seemed that a book was the only thing that stood between me and near insanity.

I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

Beatrix fled to the one place where she knew he wouldn't find her. The irony was hardly lost on her, that she was hiding from Christopher in the place she had most longed to share with him. And she was well aware that she could not hide from him forever. There would be a reckoning. But after having seen his face when he realized that she was the one who had deceived him, Beatrix wanted to put off that reckoning for as long as possible.

not a day goes by when I am not thinking of you you are like an open field full of ocean waves – to run through and never get wet but almost. this is the way I want to go home in a place – where the curtains are sails – bulging go break the fence post the houses want to run away

I wished I were a snake, so I could crawl out of my skin.

was also a safe haven for lazy stoners who wanted a break from life. Think summer camp with cushier accommodations

Either way, you should get out of that house." "I did. I'm at the Sleep Chalet on Route 9." "Sounds swanky." "If the swank were onomatopoeic, then it would be," Luna said.

Anna had always lived like a convict, even as a child, perpetually preparing for her next breakout.

You could have been shanghaied down at the docks.

Dale forced me the two steps to the truck and pushed me into the drivers' seat. The moment he started around to the passenger's side I got out and ran. He caught up with me easily and with the barrel of the gun drew me back to the truck. We did that dance three times before he figured out to push me in through the passenger's side

You have this deer-in-headlights look sometimes that I'm sure means you're going to run. Run to me, Amy, not from me.

But then two lost souls searching for an escape should connect, I reason.

Escape, baby. The lack of control is control. When you're hanging on each moment, anticipating what comes next, it leaves room for nothing else. That's what I want to do for you. … "And who helps you escape, Liam?" "We're going to the same place, Amy. I'm not standing outside, watching." His lips find my neck and then my ear. "I'm right here with you.