The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...

We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we’re sleeping,There’s no escape from this obsession.

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

En esos momentos se había puesto a escribir, no porque tuviese que hacerlo, sino porque era una forma de escapar de los problemas.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment.

There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.