Quotes About Escape

But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

on those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.

the price they must pay for escaping their destiny.

It was like living entirely inside a book.

When the time was right he would run away—and be part of the story.

He knows what reading is. How it takes you.

stood with my hand on the handle of the third door. The rule of three, Miss Winter had said. But I wasn't in the mood for her story anymore. Her dangerous house with its indoor rain and trick mirror had lost its interest for me.

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

You lose yourself in something beyond yourself and it's a lovely rest.

Our Clare doesn't much care for real life,' Drew told Jane. 'What she needs is to live in a book– the kind that no longer gets written.

What with books and chocolate, there's not much else you could have in it, is there?

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what he'd loosed into the crowd. A way out of death.

It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that.

For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.

If each of us is the center of his or her existence, Orest seemed intent on enlarging the center, making it everything. Is this what athletes do, occupy the self more fully? It's possible we envy them for a prowess that has little to do with sport. In building toward a danger, they escape it in some deeper sense, the dwell in some angelic scan, able to leap free of everyday dying.

This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying.

I live in fantasies. I live terrific lives in my head. It's part of the creative imagination, to daydream, to invent stories.

The only two motivations a hero has in a story are to escape something bad or experience something good. Such is life.

The only two motivations a hero has in a story are to escape something bad or experience something good.

I laid down in front of the television and got lost in the story.

When you're in pain, you need to think of something so that at least part of you can be free of the pain, so that your mind can go somewhere where there's no pain.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.

Hard to put things right. You don't often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.