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Quotes About Escape

Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she's in for the one in which I'm stuck
~ Jodi Picoult
We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.
~ Jodi Picoult
You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.
~ Jodi Picoult
Real life sucks. I'm going to go read a book...
~ Unknown
Nothing beats being drunk at home! Okay maybe everything does...
~ Unknown
Getting drunk after a hard day of being sober.
~ Unknown
I hate being not good enough. Nothing I do is right. I'm so fu..ing over it. I want to get out of here.
~ Unknown
Music: The only thing that can lift my mood and help me escape from being overwhelmed with thoughts. Volume up. Life down!
~ Unknown
I'm the opposite of home sick, I'm sick of being home.
~ Unknown
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
~ Lane Olinghouse
He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.
~ Unknown
"Know thyself"? If I knew myself I'd run away
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.
~ Unknown
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
~ Unknown
When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.
~ Proverb
Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.
~ Unknown
Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.
~ Unknown
I despise you," I said. "That is of no consequence. You are caught. There is no escape for you. You are wise enough to know that." "Please keep away from me." "Why, when I am pleased to be near you." "You are wicked.
~ Unknown
When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
~ Victoria Justice
In short, I was in a familiar place, the place of feeling unfamiliar, which I responded to in my usual fashion by arming myself with a gin and tonic, my first of the evening. I
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I had succeeded in saving him, but only, as it turned out, from death.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
In this country, for example, someone fleeing for his life will think he should call for the police. This is a reasonable way to cope with the threat of pain. But in my country, no one calls for the police, since it is often the police who inflict the pain.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
We cannot know whether our pain is like anybody else's pain until we talk about it. Once we do that, we speak and think in ways cultural and individual. In this country, for example, someone fleeing for his life will think he should call for the police. This is a reasonable way to cope with the threat of pain. But in my country, no one calls for the police, since it is often the police who inflict the pain.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I want to travel anywhere I want, anytime I want. I want to come back here and know I can leave.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen