He was my escape, and sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With

True love is supposed to make you into a better person—uplift you.

—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to her one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong—and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way too late in the game.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure out.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.

—Heather Davis in The Clearing

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.

—Clive Bell

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

—Twyla Tharp

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

—Thomas Merton

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

—Edgar Allan Poe