"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

Escape, Books, Reading, Imagination

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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

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"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Escape, Secrecy, Fear, Conflict

"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."

Alcaeus, Greek Poet

Escape, Drinking, Folly, Grief, Melancholy

"The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Escape, World, Soul, Dream

"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Escape, Alcohol, Life, Reality

"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."

Anais Nin, American Author

Escape, Reality, Life, Ecstasy

"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Escape, Liquor, Pain, Life

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Escape, Books, Reading, Imagination

"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Escape, Truth, Life, Power, Happiness

"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Escape, Reality, Creation, Mind, Imagination

"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Escape, Nothing, Thought, Wind

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"The body is the outermost layer of the mind."

Health

"All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one."

Mystery

"The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it."

Survival

"Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most."

Social

"The Future, says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. "Coming soon, to a Present near you."

Future

"A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste."

Emotion

"Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core."

Identity

"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."

Wonder

"Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it."

Philosophy

"Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to."

Justice