35 quotes found
“Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.”
“Rural and traditional escapism. Thats my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly ...”
“The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she had o...”
“Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.”
“Yes, life is hard, whispers Erika, but knowing about other people, other civilisations, other ways of living, other places thats your escape route, a magical journey. Once you know about these thi...”
“I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.”
“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”
“The doorbell rings and I sink into a heap on the carpet. With any luck, whoever is down there will just go away. But Im just starting to think nothing goes away, no matter how deep you try to bury it.”
“It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.”
“Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.”
“I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, the...”
“We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives b...”
“Rural and traditional escapism. That’s my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly...”
“Yes, life is hard,” whispers Erika, “but knowing about other people, other civilisations, other ways of living, other places – that’s your escape route, a magical journey. Once you know about these...”
