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Quotes About Escape

There's always away out for those clever enough to find it
~ Rick Riordan
that one way or another the Germans were tracking them from the
~ Kate Atkinson
Amelia imagined her parents clasping each other's bodies in a cold embrace and felt sorry for their poor mother who probably thought she had escaped Victor for ever
~ Kate Atkinson
by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far).
~ Kate Atkinson
The world inside his head was so much better than the world outside his head.
~ Kate Atkinson
A quick getaway,' she said, shucking
~ Kate Atkinson
There is a world outside these walls.
~ Kate Atkinson
Don't let your imagination run away with you..." But why would you not when the reality was so awful?
~ Kate Atkinson
As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
~ Kate Chopin
I have never known a mouse who has made it out of the dungeon only to go back into it again. Goodbye, friend. Goodbye, mouse among mice.
~ Kate DiCamillo
away from the car.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I'll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens." "Yes, good, that's where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I'll meet you there." Without
~ Kate Elliott
Ich vermochte kaum den Kopf hochzuhalten. Ich wollte mich befreien, dem Gefängnis meiner Erinnerung entfliehen.
~ Kate Mosse
A library is the only place you can go--from cradle to grave--that is free, safe, democratic and no one will try to flog you anything. You don't have to part with a penny to travel the world. It's the heartbeat of a community, offering precious resources to people in need. It's a place just to be, to dream, and to escape -- with books. And what's more precious than that? So here's to all library workers. We need you.
~ Kate Thompson
Ain't 'cha gonna run? she asked. No, he said, shoving the sheet away. I'm gonna fly.
~ Katherine Paterson
I suppose if alcohol had been available to me that November, I would have become a drunk. As it was, the only thing I could lose my miserable self in was books.
~ Katherine Paterson
We need a place, just for us. It could be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it. It might be a whole secret country, and you and I could be the rulers of it.
~ Katherine Paterson
I stayed with the Navajo for several years. I had no idea how to get home! But one day another captured New Mexican arrived. He was a boy, just twelve or so, but he told me he knew how to get back to the nearest town. He was determined to run away, and when the time came, I—I ran with him.
~ Kathleen Ernst
by water is so much nicer than traveling
~ Kathleen Ernst
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
~ Kathleen Norris
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
~ Kathleen Norris
Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.
~ Kathryn Harvey
Los libros le borraron el dolor y la decepción. Los libros cerraban las puertas malas y abrían las buenas. Rachel no recordaba cuándo había leído su primer libro y no recordaba ninguna ocasión en que no hubiera estado leyendo algo.
~ Kathryn Harvey
Cody and I, we escaped MacHeath and that was a miracle, and our time together seems like another sort of miracle. But it is over.
~ Kathryn Lasky