Quotes About Escape

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.

You're free to be free, just break the shackles and run loose.

My earphones are what set me free from all the bullsh...

There are times when I just want to run outside in the rain and just dance and feel free from my vapid world.

We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.

There aren't enough days in the weekend.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

When I read a book, everything around me stopped existing. All the unhappiness in my family--my parents' bitter fights, my grandmother's sadness at having had everything taken away from her--disappeared. I merged with the characters.

The sky was an unspoiled blue. I breathed the fragrant sage and the homey smell from wood fires. Our problems seemed distant, and I wondered if it would be a crime if we played hooky from saving the world.

We ran across the desert like our hair was on fire because in a few minutes, it might be. Along with the rest of our bodies.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

Los pájaros escapan como amores y como amores vuelven a encontrarnos son sencillos como las soledades y repetidos como los insomnios.

Siempre quise un altillo. Cuando tenía nueve años, cuando tenía doce…siempre quise un altillo para escaparme. ¿De quien? Nunca lo supe. Francamente quisiera saber si todos están seguros de quien escapan. Nadie lo sabe

orgullo es para cuando se tienen veinte o treinta años. Salir adelante con mis hijos era una obligación, el único escape para que la sociedad no se encarara conmigo y me dedicara la mirada inexorable que se reserva a los padres desalmados. No cabía otra solución y salí adelante. Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz.

The Antioch Beach library was like something out of a good dream, if you're the kind of person who dreams about libraries, which I am ...

I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.

This Christmas will be dramatically different for most of us from our Christmases past. But the comfort of reading is a constant. It's a salve for isolation and a haven when we need to escape into someone else's imagination.

But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.