Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.
Michael ConnellyTag: despair escape los-angeles desperation las-vegas nevada
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.
Michael ConnellyTag: dreams escapism escape california nightmares los-angeles transience restlessness hopes southern-california
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
Steven GouldEvery 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
Tag: autobiography escape teller weisel frederick-weisel
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 WeiselTag: truth love escape teller weisel frederick-weisel
I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
Jeanette WintersonTwentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a bride, I'm not so gauche as that, but as a mistress or paramour or concubine or companion or friend or pal or anything else. I just don't want to be left alone! I want to get out of here!" She said it again for all the wide-faced flowers to hear: "I want to get out of here!
Douglas WoolfThat's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.
Jennifer L. ArmentroutTag: escape jennifer-l-armentrout onyx
I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.
John GreenTag: consciousness live thought die escape
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom books poetry lies philosophy literature smiling poets lie escape quotes poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun whirlwind
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