Getaway Quotes

“Yet, for all the hours Imogen spent as an adult cocooned in her apartment, she still wasn’t sure if she’d ever felt truly at home anywhere. Sometimes in the company of a tree—or a creek, or a moss-covered rock, or a desert night haloed by the Milky Way—she felt the tension inside her finally relent. There—out there—was a place where she belonged.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“At home, she was broken and useless; in the Canyon she had the same potential as the raven that flew circles above her head.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“she knew the value of her life didn’t depend on how many people attended her funeral.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“A person could live through trauma, even when it was retriggered. She knew that better than anyone.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“She cursed the part of herself that assumed everyone was sinister in some way-especially when she forgot that she, too, didn't always make a good first impression. Everyone who met her probably thought she was standoffish, maybe stuck-up, because while her mind assessed people at a million miles a minute, she wasn't quick to be friendly, open, warm.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“You needed someone's approval, and when you finally realized the boyfriends couldn't give it, you looked for it from everyone else. From strangers.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“People who loved nature were different. Except for hunters. And maybe survivalists.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“Imogen recalled a line from a Leonard Cohen song and something within her cracked a little, willing to let the light in.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“Here, the presence of other people felt different; or maybe she was different. Civilization had gone awry, with its buildings and highways, its digitalization and consumption. Binge-watching TV. Humans had adapted to a meaningless structure of work and wealth that resulted in a fundamental loss of identity. Here, you could return to the natural order, enjoy the two-part state of doing-the-necessities-to-survive and sitting-around-doing-nothing, unburdened of existential angst.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway

“You may not want to, but you’re capable of it.”
― Zoje Stage, Getaway