Escape Quotes
1931 quotes by 1394 authors
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What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her…
— Maria Semple
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Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live…
— Emma Donoghue
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Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In…
— Chris Colfer
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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
— Junot Diaz
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I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of…
— Margaret Mitchell
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He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.
— Catherine Fisher
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Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become…
— Rajneesh
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them…
— Bell Hooks
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
— David Mitchell
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You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone…
— Frank Miller
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Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.†There were a few moments of silence.…
— Richelle Mead
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I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we…
— Lauren Oliver
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And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never…
— Lauren Oliver
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I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting…
— Lucy Christopher
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He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a…
— Khalil Gibran
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Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
— Derek Landy
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