Quotes About Escape

How are we going to get out of here?" "Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan." " Do we have the right plan?" "Not yet." "Do we have any plan?" "Not yet.

So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out.

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

At a gesture, the window flew open and China vaulted out.

Why did you have to jump out of the window?" "You know why," Skulduggery said, walking away. Axle looked up, tears streaming from his eyes. "Why did he do that? Why?" Stephanie glowered. "Because doors are for people with no imagination," she said.

Remember that day I called Valkyrie and told her to take the afternoon off? Yeah, I was stuck in a wall.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

The best thing there is to do when there is temptation is run.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Jonathan shuddered. There were birds in his head now, as if escaping from the empty feeders above their heads. Ghost birds. Fluttering around inside his skull, and he could not get them out. Yet still he went on, wanting to burst through the nettle and tall trees, find a copse and feel the sunlight on his face. It was getting colder and colder in the haunted mansion.

But when you can't escape the seconds, when you are sure you are going to die before you can get free, some things don't mean very much anymore.

At least, that's what he chose to believe. To have a reason for his packing, and a place to think of as a sanctuary. Or a hiding place.

The beetles Wick altered, or made from materials he'd stolen from the Company, didn't just teach when shoved in your ear; they could also rid you of memories and add memories. People who couldn't face the present shoved them into their ears so they could experience someone else's happier memories from long ago, from places that didn't exist anymore.

Time for another drink, somewhere else. A kind of oblivion.

At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.

WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN'T GETCHA 'A

Surrender extends our childhood situation into our adult life. For this reason it often leads us to feel hopeless about changing. All we know is the lifetrap, which we never escape. It is a self-perpetuating loop.

Brandon tries to escape his feelings of defectiveness. With Escape, we avoid thinking about our lifetrap. We push it out of our minds. We also escape feeling our lifetrap. When feelings are generated, we dampen them down. We take drugs, or overeat, or compulsively clean, or become a workaholic. And we avoid entering situations that might activate our lifetrap. In fact, our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors work as if the lifetrap never existed.

Lost in the Library

This is the second time you've escaped me," she said lightly, watching carefully for his reaction. "I could never wish to escape you," he said with a grin, but behind it was something heated and filled with desire. It almost melted her.

Oh! it is better to live on the sea and let other men raise your crops and cook your meals. A house smells of smoke, a ship smells of frolic. From a house you see a sooty roof, from a ship you see Valhalla.