Mental Getaway Quotes

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

Take me away from all this Death.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.