Escapes Quotes
155 Escapes quotes by 140 unique authors
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It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting…
— Margaret Atwood
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to…
— C.S. Lewis
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Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are…
— Ellen Hopkins
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No one escapes from life alive.
— Michael Crichton
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Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and…
— Richard Paul Evans
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The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a…
— James Patterson
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Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are…
— Muriel Barbery
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'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it…
— Richelle Mead
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The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness.…
— Margaret Haddix
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Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
— Jandy Nelson
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The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The…
— Ingmar Bergman
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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a…
— Patrick Ness
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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man…
— William Shakespeare
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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
— Jandy Nelson
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It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.…
— Mary Zimmerman
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I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is…
— Jenny Downham
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As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize…
— Charles Bukowski
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I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed…
— John Green
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They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and…
— Norton Juster
Who Wrote These Escapes Quotes
140 authors contributed a total of 155 Escapes Quotes, led by these top contributors: