Escape Quote by Bilal Tanweer

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As…

— C.P. Cavafy

“A big city is a big ocean; the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.”

— Katherine McIntyre

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out…

— John Updike

“- You know that there is a city on the far side of the ocean. But you haven’t yet found the ship, nor have…

— Paulo Coelho

“I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“The sea was my first home...Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe.”

— Jennifer Silverwood

“From my own novel. Because in the City, you know there is nothing else, it is a place without roads, without real people, without…

— Ben Farmer

“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; so am I.”

— Greta Garbo

“I like the ocean,” [...] “It feels like forever and I can breathe. When I’m near the ocean, I’m free of the swamp in…

— Bijou Hunter

“(Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.)”

— Mallory Ortberg

“He wishes to be far away, either at sea or on the shore. In between, he realizes, is the most difficult of all places…

— Jane Yolen