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“Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.”
“And you wanted to escape,' a man near me whispered to another man. 'You wanted to run off into the woods and fight. But do you see? Do you see what the rest of them think about us? These people wou...”
“We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when were sleeping,Theres no escape from this obsession.”
“How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding--if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself out in the street with two dollars to your name, to catch the streetcar downt...”
“I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.”
“She walked forward, feeling the dew on the grass with each step. She tightened her eyes, welcoming the darkness.”
“Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would b...”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“If poetry escapes my mouth then it shall seek comfort in your heart. Will you keep it safe?”
“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 situ...”
“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.”
“Sometimes all you know about where you're going is that it's away from where you are.”
“Escapers were the cream of the crop.”
“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.”
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
“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.”
“We’re lost in each other, in the heart of Toronto, slow dancing to nothing but the beat of my heart and the sound of her breath on my neck. I know the subway trains are trembling beneath my feet an...”
“Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.”
“Seek a slower, simpler life.”
