Escapes Quotes

155 Escapes quotes by 140 unique authors

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
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
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
No one escapes from life alive. — Michael Crichton
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks? — Jandy Nelson
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
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
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
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
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

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