Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
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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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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and…
— Frida Kahlo
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I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I…
— Charles Bukowski
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...Things happened when you were little. Things you don't remember now, and don't want to. But they need to escape, need to worm their way…
— Ellen Hopkins
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so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love…
— Bisco Hatori
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...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me…
— Félix J. Palma
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One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know…
— Jenny Lawson
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Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape of my dreams,…
— J.A. Redmerski
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There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying…
— John Boyne
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I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an escape,…
— Pittacus Lore
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It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them…
— Richelle Mead
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I'm going to escape now.
— Marissa Meyer
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Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people…
— Richelle Mead
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I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as…
— Simone Elkeles
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I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad,…
— Neil Gaiman
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too often, the only escape is sleep
— Charles Bukowski
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I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the…
— Marie Lu
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Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
— Gayle Forman
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning…
— Veronica Roth
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They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant…
— Rick Riordan
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