Quotes About Escape

The world and its institutions engulf and suffocate us. We runners find our sanctuary in retreating to the roadways and trails, our sacred reprieve. The wonder isn't that we go; it's that we come back.

The hardest lesson I had learnt upon my travels was patience. There are times when every muscle, every nerve, screams for movement, when every instinct urges escape. But the instinct to fly is not always a sound one. There are occasions when only stillness can save you.

in that moment I would have sold my soul to a tinker to be anywhere else.

I am on the run for my life with a cat who hates to travel

They say Louise has ordered the windows of the palace bricked up to stop Lorne escaping into Kensington Gardens to tryst with soldiers. Whether it is true or not, I can tell you that Louise has been unhappy. And an unhappy wife is a dangerous creature.

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

A relationship could be a place to hide too.

Blessed books--they're a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

Running away can also be running to.

True love, even if just in your head, can make you forget how badly things actually suck.

Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.

Against the sky, she is exquisitely elsewhere.

A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh.

She wants to propel herself into the dark and terrifying universe. Being that unanchored and that much in peril seems preferable to being here, grounded on the earth that wrecked her.

Extend your vacation whenever possible.

I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

If we read the scriptures, we shall escape the evils of sin.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book.

Books fall open, you fall in

I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.

The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.