top of page
Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott

"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

Standard 
 Customized
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I came to this city to escape."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

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

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

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

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

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

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

Time

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."

Now

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

Nothing

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

Innocence

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."

Memory

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

Life

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."

Life

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."

Forgiveness

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

Circumstance

Quote_1.png
Jack Henry Abbott
"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."

Support

bottom of page