Escape Quotes

Escape is a commodity like anything else

~ Iain Banks

Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise.

~ J.d. Robb

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel

~ Frederick Weisel

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

~ Steven Gould

They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.

~ Erin Bow

One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?

~ Nina George

The last great escape. I was done gambling, done betting on a ship that would never come in. I would cash in my chips while I was ahead. I didn't want to suffer the growing old, didn't want to wait until my memory went. It was all so tiresome. I would just go out in a blaze of glory before the parasites of sadness got at me and made me bitter. After that's the American way: take your own life before everything else takes it from you.

~ Brian James

Art is anything you can get lost in. A place to escape and a place to find yourself.

~ Heloise Clough

Escape the repetitive whirl wind that life can become through complacency.

~ Steven Redhead

Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.

~ Christina Engela

Don’t pretend, Bianca,” he said. “You’re smarter than that, and so am I. I finally figured out what you meant when you left. You said you were like Hester. I get it now. The first time you came to my house, when we wrote that paper, you said Hester was trying to escape. But everything caught up with Hester in the end, didn’t it? Well, something finally caught up with you, but you’re just running away again. Only, he”-Wesley pointed to my bedroom door-“is your escape this time.” He took a step toward me, forcing me to crane my neck even more to see his face. “Admit it, Duffy.”“Admit what?”“That you’re running away from me,” he said. “You realized you’re in love with me and you bailed because it scared the shit out of you.

~ Kody Keplinger

Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30

~ Paulo Coelho

Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape.” Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery

~ Kelly Oliver

Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.

~ Karin Slaughter

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

~ Anthony Powell

Promise me that if you get a chance to escape without me, you will do it. He won't kill me. Go find your men and come back for me. His eyelids and brows lowered. You don't know me very well or you wouldn't say such a thing. I won't leave you.

~ Melanie Dickerson

And so, now, it is almost midnight of the first day, and I have broken my resolution to go to bedearly - postponing sleep, and thereby the inevitable waking up in tomorrow. Another device of escape.

~ Silvia Plath

If poetry escapes my mouth then it shall seek comfort in your heart. Will you keep it safe?

~ Delano Johnson

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

~ David Baldacci

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

~ Graham Greene

There is no escape from me, not even in death.

~ Conn Iggulden

If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless.

~ John Fowles

I lean back against the velvet-cushioned seat and close my eyes to the sound of hooves pounding hard against the cobblestone streets. Their clip-clopping harmony keeping perfect tempo with the rumble of carriage wheels, affording a sound as sweet as any symphony I've ever heard. It's the sound of escapeThe sound of goodbyeA sound that's served to soothe me in the past, providing the much-needed assurance that the unwelcome inquiries and suspicions of newly alerted acquaintances would soon fade - allowing for a brief respite in a new location, before I'm on the move again.I'm a gypsy.A nomad.A vagabond.A drifter.

~ Alyson Noel

Sometimes all you know about where you're going is that it's away from where you are.

~ Leah Raeder

Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

~ A.w. Exley

There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.

~ Jason Medina

Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.

~ Fennel Hudson

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

~ Sara Sheridan

Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

~ Félix J. Palma

Once we were alone, Imogen unfolded her hand. In it, she held the key to the chains. I had passed it to her while we were in the embrace. Roden noticed it and scowled. You gave her the key and not me? I could be free already.I smiled at him. Yes, but I wasn't going to kiss you.Fair enough

~ Jennifer A. Nielsen

Change is coming, she whispered to the bugs bouncing off her window. You can’t escape it.

~ A. Lynn

What's the use of the wind if it won't take you away on it?

~ Samantha Young

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

~ Margaret Atwood

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

~ Margaret Atwood

When you talk about escape, know that it doesn’t take place from the front. Hidden paths are always on the back.

~ Waheed Ibne Musa

I thought about all the people who'd had to do this through history. The millions taking flight from disasters, fleeing tyrannical despots, making exodus from pogroms, escaping waring soldiers and pouring out of bombed cities. What had kept them going was the promise of safe haven, whether in some sprawling refugee camp or under the protection of a friendly army. We didn't have that.

~ Michael Adams

Please,’ Neil shook the stinging fluid out of his eyes. Don’t beg. You’ll appear weak DO NOT BEG. ‘Please, I’m begging you. Don’t take my bike. It’s all I have left and I ... I ...’ he looked behind him in the direction of the city, ‘I can’t go back.

~ Teresa Schulz

Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.” “Huh?” I asked. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

~ John Green

I was a good lawyer , and most days that was enough. I was aware, however, that I took refuge in my profession, as unlikely as that seemed considering the amount of human suffering I dealt with. It offered me a role to escape into, from what I no longer knew; perhaps nothing more significant than my own little ration of suffering.

~ Michael Nava

The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.

~ Veronica Roth