Escapes Quote by Anihyr Moonstar

“Jack was already mother-naked when he heard the cry and saw the splash. He slipped from the gunwale into the clear water, made out…

— Patrick O'Brian

“The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“There was a moment's suspense while Conscience and Sheer Wickedness fought the matter out inside him, and then Conscience, which had started on the…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she…

— Richard Francis Burton

“They caught hands again, and walked toward the water's edge, two small figures against the black waves. Only halfway there, one of them must…

— Rachel Joyce

“The galleys...had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The two males had been standing directly in front of the point of detonation, and both had been killed instantly.  Standing a few yards…

— Dirk Patton

“Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush…

— Marisha Pessl