Quotes About Escape

Since physical escape is impossible, the child escapes mentally. She floats out of her body, imagining that somebody else is being raped or beaten, and turns off her emotions, saying, "This isn't happening to me.

Now maybe that Arizona incident will make sense to you. I had to get out of that apartment, because if I had stayed in that situation I would have switched, and then all of you would've known the secret that I've kept for so, so long.

Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you." ~Homer, The Book of Night Women

You think as they do that suffering from cruelty or escaping it is a matter of choice or means, when it is matter of power.

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it

I want to lie down in the grass on the sidewalk and I want to run and keep running.

The car is hopping over bumps, jumping, tearing, screeching. The green car in sight, out of sight, vanishing around a corner only to appear when I skate around, behind three or four cars. God, I hope he's not trying to lose me. I almost said "give me the slip." I could feel it coming but I didn't.

They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran.

With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want

Indeed, sir, I would be more than willing to do whatever I can to speed my mistress and myself away from this accursed country and away from the likes of you." She looked Alex directly in the eye. "You, sir, ride with death on your shoulder, and it does not make for pleasant company.

Lily, the girl who'd talked back to the jock, said, "I want to get as far away from my parents as possible. We're like potassium and water." The other kids laughed and I said, "Huh?" "If potassium comes into contact with water, it instantly combusts," Lily said slowly so if she was talking to a child.

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

I stared straight ahead. If there was one thing good about this situation, it was reinforcing how great my decisions to (a) hack my governor module and (b) escape were. Being a SecUnit sucked. I couldn't wait to get back to my wild rogue rampage of hitching rides on bot-piloted transports and watching my serials.

In the feed, ART started to play the soundtrack to Sanctuary Moon and weirdly, that helped.

Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse.

The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast.

Nietzsche, who called alcohol and Christianity "the two great European narcotics," was not averse to the therapeutic use of cannabis. "To escape from unbearable pressure you need hashish," Nietzsche wrote.

Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.

He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.

We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

In common with Russia, American children seldom play outdoors. Russia can use the excuse of cold weather, but in the United States, the daily torrent of bad news from televisions and smartphones leads most parents to believe that murder or abduction lies at the end of their driveways. In both countries, men escape. In Russia, men disappear on fishing boats weighed down with cases of vodka. In American, men go golfing. In

At the same time, she often felt lonely. Books became her refuge. When she was unhappy, she withdrew with her books and shut herself off from the rest of the world. This is what she had already done as a child. With the help of books she could create a world of her own, where she could do as she wanted, and where no one could bother her.

come abbiamo fatto a farla franca? Siamo scampati al suicidio, agli incidenti e alla malattia. Ti senti come un superstite. E, al contempo, capisci che bisogna vivere, lavorare e amare come mai prima d'ora.

Elle voulait s'enfuir, mais il lui semblait que la prison était dans l'air lui-même.