Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.
They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple . . . away from the shadows, away from the darkness.
Tags: escape
But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.
Umair NaeemSometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.
Alan HeathcockTags: escape unhappiness running-away disassociation
Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.
Nicole ChristieTags: reading writing fiction escape
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
David MitchellWe are the wilderness within
Screaming out for true expression.
Even when we’re sleeping,
There’s no escape from this obsession.
Tags: expression obsession escape wilderness within
Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. "You always have to take yourself with you," she said. And now, bending towards her mother, Hope wondered if in death you were finally able to run away from yourself. This might be death's gift. She knew that the thought wasn't terribly profound, but she was moved by the notion of completion and of escape.
David BergenTags: death escape self-realization
I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.
Rebecca DonovanTags: weakness shame struggle guilt anger self-hatred feelings escape thoughts emma emotional sever disconnecting stares
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
Kahlil GibranTags: man prison escape drunk drunken unbeautiful
I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.
Tags: truth poetry memory anger haunted escape the-past skeletons
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