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Quotes About Escape

Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight. It had always been my refuge, my place of escape, whether I was sneaking onto a rooftop lit only by the stars or down a midnight alley to be with my brothers.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It was by this outlet that Lady Audley meant to make her escape. She could easily remove the bar and unfasten the shutter, and she might safely venture to leave the window ajar while she was absent.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I love to fly. It's just you're alone, there's peace and quiet, nothing around you but clear blue sky. No one to hassle you. No one to tell you where to go or what to do. The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fuckin' world.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.
~ Mary Jo Putney
Each book became for me the life I lacked, brought new adventure, gave me something to look forward to, gave new dimension to this parched and sterile world I live I.
~ Unknown
He could travel in his mind, though. He did it all the time.
~ Unknown
I like to read because it kills me.
~ Mary Ruefle
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I had a love affair with books, with the characters and their worlds. Books kept me company
~ Marya Hornbacher
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?
~ Unknown
A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it's a fake one.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.
~ Masha Gessen
If I have to stay my whole life here, without ever experiencing there, I'll evaporate.
~ Unknown
Reading gives us a place to go when we have no where to go
~ Mason Cooley
Reading gives us a place to go when we have to stay where we are.
~ Mason Cooley
reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay
~ Mason Cooley
Leggere ci dà un posto dove andare anche quando dobbiamo rimanere dove siamo.
~ Mason Cooley
Reading brings us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are..
~ Mason Cooley
Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.
~ Mat Johnson
I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.
~ Mathias Malzieu
E.T., je comprends pourquoi tu t'es barré à vélo en plein ciel. A ta place j'aurais continué de pédaler jusqu'à Pluton sans me retourner.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Algunas veces solo necesito esconderme, en otros momentos desaparecer, para que me dejen en paz, y no pensar en nada. Aunque lo mejor sería que me hiciera un traje de pájaro con mi sombra y volar, porque estoy harto de arrastrar la cara bajo tierra, de no ver ahí absolutamente nada, y pienso que, quizá, en el cielo, o justo encima, te encontraré.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Neo Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here.
~ Unknown