174 quotes found
“Seek a slower, simpler life.”
“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”
“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”
“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 sit...”
“In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.”
“She was his only escape, And she was his only prison.”
“I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.”
“Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship.”
“I want more from life. I want to travel, see the world, and meet different kinds of people. I dont want to stay locked in a small country, living my life halfheartedly the way society expects me to...”
“The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldnt bring ourselves to say.”
“I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.”
“Inside, a deep-rooted force raged, buried in her psyche from eons before, percolating with a primordial awakening that had been long forgotten, until now.”
“I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.”
“Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm”
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
“Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while she knew there were people and responsibilities in the darkness beyond it, she couldn't see them. T...”
“We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.”
“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take...”
“College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did notintellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere be...”
“I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.”
