Words Escape Me Quotes

#1. And yet I am afraid, afraid of what my words will do to me, to my refuge, yet again ... If I could speak and yet say nothing, really nothing? Then I might escape being gnawed to death.

Samuel Beckett

#2. Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm."
There were a few moments of silence. "Sage, I've been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?

Richelle Mead

#3. This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

Cornelia Funke

#4. We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

April Mae Monterrosa

#5. It's quite impressive. You must be skilled with a blade."
"I prefer the bow. Perhaps we could go for a hunt sometime. I could impress you with my very unladylike talents."
As soon as the words escape my mouth, I realize how it sounded and I flush deep crimson.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#6. Right words, sometimes they escape me; curses nay so much. Of them I am kin.

Luke Taylor

#7. Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.

Matt Haig

#8. This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Michael Ondaatje

#9. I have fallen,
for your words.
They are like,
a gossamer cobweb,
I have been,
embroiled,
decoyed,
snared into!
Incapacitated.
I fail to escape.
I fail to liberate.
Your words,
didn't redeem,
made me a,
captive instead.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#10. To strive in life; we must either read or write a story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm

Munia Khan

#12. I've got a little baby, I made him ... He doesn't speak, he's 2 ... He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words ... car and map ... I'm slightly worried he's trying to escape. If his next word is passport we are in serious trouble!

Michael McIntyre

#13. He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

Jojo Moyes

#15. Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other - in other words, they're using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other's support.

Mark Manson

#16. Blood in and blood out," he says, kissing my neck in between his words. "Your fuckin' choice. But know this: it is forever now my blood that runs through your veins. And I will drown you in it before I let you escape me again.

Nicole Reed

#17. How very odd it is to be abandoned by language, how the future demands what should have been asked in the past, how words can escape us with such ease, and we are left, then, only with the pursuit.

Colum McCann

#18. My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don't care that they are naked.
There is something burning in there.

Andrea Gibson

#19. Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

Cynthia Voigt