Get Away Quotes - Page 9

• Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

  Henry Rollins (1997). “The First Five: Collected Work, 1983-1987”, 2 13 61

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• Leopardstar says that they're staying with us so the Clans can exchange training methods and fighting techniques, but I don't see much sign of it. All they do is watch....It's like they're learning all about us, all our secrets and weaknesses. That's why I came over here, to get away from them for a bit.

  Erin Hunter

  Fighting, Secret, Training

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• ʺWho′s a spirit user?ʺ said Robert. ʺFormer spirit user,ʺ said Victor, ʺShe became a Strigoi to get away from it.ʺ ʺYes . . . always a lure to that . . . kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .ʺ said Robert.

  Richelle Mead

  Loss, Spirit, Immortality

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• Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

  Robert Crais

  Angel, Stalking, Shakes

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• Time just gets away from us.

  Charles Portis

  Grit, True Grit

  Charles Portis (2013). “Escape Velocity”, p.262, The Overlook Press

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• Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Octopus, Trying, Monsters

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

  Edith Wharton

  Intuition, Amusement, Want

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

  Sue Townsend

  Marriage, Father, Years

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• the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

  Charles Bukowski

  Hands, Understanding, Novelists

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• Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

  James Howe

  Boys, Thinking, Trying

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• ...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason.

  David Foster Wallace

  Song, War, Dark

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• Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

  Jennifer Egan

  House, Grenade, Ifs

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.102, Anchor

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• Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Fall, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sleep, Insomnia, Impossible

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• As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

  Jon Ronson

  Hate, Writing, Ambition

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.534, Pan Macmillan

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• See, this was the thing with Qhuinn. He could be out there and he could let his edge get away from him, but he always came back and made you feel like you were the single most important person in the world to him and that he was truly sorry for hurting your feelings.

  J.R. Ward

  Hurt, Sorry, Feelings

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.98, Penguin

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• You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Guy, Next

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• Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone. - Gabrielle

  Ally Carter

  Cousin, Stupid, Believe

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• When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

  Tim Wise

  Drinking, College, Cities

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• Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drunk, Enough, Obvious

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• She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Enough, Turns, Pulling

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't worry, Mel. Miracles don't work that way. I'll never lose you. I'll never let you get away from me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Worry, Miracle, Way

  "The Host". Book by Stephenie Meyer, May 6, 2008.

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• I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

  Candace Bushnell

  Waiting, House, Want

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• A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Lying, Silence, Wake Up

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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• When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Self, Agony

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.312, Open Road Media

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