“I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”— David Mitchell, books.google.com
“Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.”— Rumi, suficomics.com
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is es…”— Nora Ephron, amazon.com
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“My mother grabbed the iron poker from the fireplace and said, 'Get in the car.'”— Domenica Ruta, amazon.com
“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“And it’s finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for 'cities' at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings’ll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillness in the wilds — So I tell myself 'Be…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com