Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
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What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the…
— Scott Lynch
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Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.
— Suzanne Collins
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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the…
— Hannah Arendt
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There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not…
— Elizabeth George Speare
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For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside…
— Kamila Shamsie
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Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.
— Daniel Handler
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To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat…
— Eugene B. Sledge
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as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
— William S. Burroughs
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
— John Fowles
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Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her…
— Milan Kundera
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I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk,…
— Neil Gaiman
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And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that…
— John Wyndham
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When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed.…
— Frank Herbert
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge…
— Nancy Pearl
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I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still…
— Charlaine Harris
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Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.
— Rob Thurman
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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who love me usually…
— Gaelen Foley
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I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns…
— Mathias Malzieu
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There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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