Escaping Reality Quotes

“But the transport of a novel, the false awareness of being within another time,
place and life that was the pleasure of reading, for her, was not possible. She
was in another time, place, consciousness; it pressed in upon her and filled her as someone’s breath fills a balloon’s shape. She was already not what she was. No fiction could compete with what she was finding she did not know, could not have imagined or discovered through imagination.”
― Nadine Gordimer, July's People

“I’d be sitting at Barnes and Noble on Central Park Avenue, while rummaging through bargain books, listening to music on my earbuds, and probably sipping on a tasty Caramel Frappuccino. I always use to forget about the rest of the world whenever I did that. I would love to forget about the world, now.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“And sometimes..

seeking refuge in the
enchanting realm of dreams
to escape the mundane
inhibitors of reality

is the only way.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul