174 quotes found
“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”
“I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.”
“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so ...”
“During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working ...”
“...I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.”
“Let me out Aphador.' Penteluck said smoothly.'So you can attempt to run away, I think not.”
“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
“That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.”
“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 edge.”
“Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place wher...”
“By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for...”
“You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.”
“There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.”
“One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?”
“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...”
“I wasn't in danger today," I tell him in a choked voice. "I escaped danger today." And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out...”
“Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30”
“Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape. Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery”
“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...”
