Be someone's LovEscape!
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.
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.
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (Iβd include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while youβve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, theyβre not escapist. Theyβre escape.
But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
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.
Even prisoners can escape if they have books.
How fitting, that the most terrifying time in my life should require me to do what I do best: escape into a book.
When I was a child, I read everything I found, anywhere I found it. The only thing that felt beautiful about my life was the way books helped me escape it.
People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.
For kids in 2nd or 3rd grade, I would recommend the 'Dear America' series. Most of the stories in the 'Dear America' series, if they have black girls, are about them being enslaved, but they escape or do something really adventurous.
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.