escape

She walked forward, feeling the dew on the grass with each step. She tightened her eyes, welcoming the darkness.

Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we__e sleeping,There__ no escape from this obsession.

Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.

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 the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

Your eyes, they shine so brightI wanna save that lightI can't escape this nowUnless you show me how

One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?

Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self, not a citizen of any state, not a stake in that infernal game, the place where only what reason you have can still work to some reasonable effect in a world gone mad.

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 downtown and get a job, perhaps as an airline stewardess. Think how wonderful it would be to fly to Houston and back three times a week for the next twenty years. You think I'm kidding? I'm not. It would be wonderful.

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 until my memory went. It was all so tiresome. I would just go out in a blaze of glory before the parasites of sadness got at me and made me bitter. After that's the American way: take your own life before everything else takes it from you.

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 you wouldn't say such a thing. I won't leave you.

Art is anything you can get lost in. A place to escape and a place to find yourself.

If poetry escapes my mouth then it shall seek comfort in your heart. Will you keep it safe?

Escape is a commodity like anything else

Unfortunately, the escape became the trap.

They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.