Best No Escape Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The car was waiting for him, and in twenty minutes, he passed under the Broken Heart sign that used to read Tender Oak. Edward found it ironic that it was March. The harvest would begin soon. He’d first arrived at this place seventy-five years ago at the age of ten, in March, just before the harvest.”

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Book:One More Life to Live

Source: One More Life to Live

“And that's the thing, right? At a certain point, there is no escape. There is no starting over. Do you want to die alone or is it better to have someone there? Even if it's not some ideal romantic situation, it's preferable to being alone! Real love doesn't happen to everyone. It's luck! I've never had it. And I guess I never will.”

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Book:The Lizard Laughed

Source: The Lizard Laughed

“We were all going to do. There was no way out. We fluttered like drowning moths.”

Despair Futility Existential Dread No Escape

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“We were all going to die. There was no way out. We fluttered like drowning moths.”

Despair Hopelessness Futility Existential Dread No Escape

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to that of any composer or poet for whom the meaning of his life was creation. One could only wonder what Picasso would have done to the world if he had been born a physicist. Terrifying thought . . .”

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Book:The Gasp

Source: The Gasp

“This is Hell, isn't it?" "The closest I've ever come," Sam replied. "But don't give up yet. We might still make it out of here." "That's the thing about Hell, once you're admitted, there is no escape.”

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Book:Blood Moon

Source: Blood Moon

“This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain...”

Suffering Trapped No Escape

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“But no man has ever truly escaped his destiny. Jonah always goes to Nineveh.”

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Book:Winter in Deglendark Valley

Source: Winter in Deglendark Valley

“That too was part of a machine from which she had not, for all her 'feelings' and her 'principles', the spirit or the courage really to escape.”

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Book:The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over with your lives and now you are afraid you can never get out.”

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Book:She Had Some Horses

Source: She Had Some Horses

“I’ll be damned if I am getting trapped in another borough of this city!”

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Book:The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“It is a plague of unprecedented proportions. Anyone, who is unfortunate enough to become infected by its deadly parasites, is transformed into a mindless carrier with an inane desire to feed and spread the virus to other potential hosts. Even death is no escape.”

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Book:The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“There would be no escape for them, only infection.”

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Book:The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.”

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Book:No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park

Source: No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park