#escape

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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?


Logan P. Smith


#being #eat #eaten #enough #escaped

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#doctor-watson #escape #late-visit #scrambling #sherlock-holmes

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel


Frederick Weisel


#escape #frederick-weisel #teller #weisel #life

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.


Maud Hart Lovelace


#escape #imagination #libraries #library #reading

When I am alone with God I see that God is really all I have. All that matters. All that will last. At these times I realize that the magnitude of what I have is incomprehensible. Usually I cry for the sheer joy of it. Not tears of defeat, but rather tears of gratitude.


Pola Muzyka


#romance-novels #thriller #thriller

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)


Saloma Miller Furlong


#coming-of-age #escape-from-the-amish #inspirational #memoir #age

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say. —Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel


Frederick Weisel


#frederick-weisel #love #teller #truth #weisel

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.


Michael Bergin


#campaign #escape #even #everything #expected

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.


Brian Michael Bendis


#crafting #drawing #escape #fine #fun

You can escape into a character.


John Candy


#escape #into #you