Escapist Character/Quotes

Rachel Gracelyn takes a wrong turn on the school's football field and finds herself in a Magical Land of beautiful, kindly elves and charming fairies. Amazingly, she finds that she can communicate with them on a level that she was never able to achieve with her classmates.

—Becoming the Queen

You're not a neglected orphan sleeping in a cupboard! You're a wizard! You're the bestest wizard of all and you're also great at sports and you had rich, wizardly parents who loved you so much they died for you (but you've still got their money) and also, we brought you birthday cake!

—Cleolinda Jones about Harry Potter in My thoughts on Twilight et al.

Georgina: I've often wished that I could be just--well, just completely reckless and irresponsible, like--like--oh, I don't know who...
Hand: Like Opal?

Georgina: Well, yes, now that you mention it! Is that why everybody is so mad to read that silly book?

Hand: What are you being so snooty about? Why, that book is positively a boon to womankind! For two-fifty flat or three cents a day any Hausfrau in the land can identify herself with the most luscious yes-woman in all literature.

Georgina: Is that really what every woman wants?

Hand: All I can go by is the sales figures.

—Dream Girl

Much of fiction is not about what is, but what can be, or what you wish you could do.

—From "So You Want To Write A Kid Novel"

The appeal of these movies is not Paul Walker's character, it's being Paul Walker's character.

—Mr Plinkett of RedLetterMedia talking about The Fast and the Furious movies in his Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull review.