Escaped Quotes

256 Escaped quotes by 214 unique authors

You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once… — Jennifer Estep
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those… — Erich Maria Remarque
Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol… — Suzanne Collins
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped. — Virginia Woolf
No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It doesn't eat meat." I said. "It's a herbivore. It's like a big cow." Denna looked at me and started to laugh. Not hysterical laughter,… — Patrick Rothfuss
Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. — Charles Bukowski
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped… — Homer
Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared… — Julia Quinn
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if… — Lauren DeStefano
Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare… — Lisa Kleypas
One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion) — George R. R. Martin
Lovely,wonderful Isabelle.Could you please go away?Now is a really bad time." Isabelle looked from Magnus to her brother,and back again. "Then,you dont want me to… — Cassandra Clare
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity… — Josef Pieper
I'm not worthy of that," I said. I might be human now, but I understand how powerful a heavenly creature Carter was. "I don't deserve… — Richelle Mead
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at… — Andrea Gibson
I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and… — Fernando Pessoa
Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care? — Sarah Dessen
The past can be escaped only by embracing something better. — Nicholas Sparks
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Elwyn Brooks White
There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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