“Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”— Naguib Mahfouz, facebook.com
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life…”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only thing that make life bearable.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”— D.H. Lawrence, goodreads.com
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You get on a train, you disappear. You write your name on the window, you disappear. There are places like this everywhere, places you enter as a young girl from which you never return.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“A memory can be a marvelous getaway, but you must never make a home there.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am h…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com