“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”

“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”

“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”

“People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else”

“and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.”

“The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.”

“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.”

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”