656 Quotes About Escape

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

I let out a sigh as I read, trying to forget everything for a few hours as I dove into a fictional world where monsters didn’t haunt me, where fathers didn’t leave their kids to starve, and where I didn’t pine for a boy who had been thrown in my life by circumstance, who I may not ever get to love me back.

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Se nu er jeg borte fra byens larm ogtrængsel og aviser og mennesker, jeg erflygtet fra det altsammen fordi det igjenkaldte på mig fra landet og ensomhetenhvor jeg er fra. Du skal se det kommertil å gå godt! Tænker jeg og har atter detbedste håp. Ak jeg har gjort en slik flugtfør og er atter vendt tilbake til byen. Ogatter flyktet.

The thought of writing makes me smile, because I know I've created another world a reader can escape to.

Reading is just a vacation you pay less for, with an agenda you have no control over.

Are all these books doors?''A book is always a door.

For Jeanot reading and writing were as basic as breathing. Without reading to help him escape, the world became paler on the brightest day, and most things stopped making sense. In America, where logic was hard to find, reading was a necessity.