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.
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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.
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Georgina: I've often wished that I could be just--well, just completely reckless and irresponsible, like--like--oh, I don't know who... —Dream Girl
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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"
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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.
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