Quote by Arundhati Roy

“Would he ever, he wondered, escape from people who banged on the doors he locked to demand his egress?”

— William Trevor

“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“What he really wanted was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”

— Vladimir Nabokov Signs and

“It was as if knowing that I had to leave revealed something to me that only [he] could explain. But everything felt wrong. In…

— Daniel Kine

“No one tried to escape. Why was that? Was hope so powerful that it would cause a man to cooperate to the very end?…

— Amy Harmon

“I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the thought that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up…

— Haruki Murakami

“He left himself no possible way of retreat. He had to win or perish!”

— Napoleon Hill

“It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he…

— Joseph Conrad

“My great thought is in himself. If all else perished and he remained I should still continue to be and if all else remained…

— Emily Brontë

“…but then came another blow and something in him disconnected, like he’d been detached from a rock and was falling through an open pit,…

— Yuri Herrera