115 Quotes About Running-away

  • Author Alix E. Harrow
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    I wanted to run away and keep running until I was out of this sad, ugly fairy tale. There's only one way to run away from your own story, and that's to sneak into someone else's. I unwedged the leather-bound book from beneath my mattress and breathed in the ink-and-adventure smell of it. I walked through it into another world.

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  • Author Corallie Buchanan
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    My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior facade of ‘everything is alright’ only works for a little while, and then the cracks begin to show. You can only hide behind yourself for so long. You can’t keep running!

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  • Author Sela Ordaz
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    You are aware that is late, the sun set half a spin ago.” She did know, it was one of the reasons why she had left at that time, when they changed guards, when the spin was over then she could more easily slip away.

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  • Author Richard Siken
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    I crawled out the window and ran into the woods.I had to make up all the words myself. The waythey taste, the way they sound in the air. I passedthrough the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbledaround for awhile, and stumbled back out. I madethis place for you. A place for you to love me.If this isn't the kingdom then I don't know what is.

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  • Author Sarah Micklem
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    But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps he didn't mean them) and I was ready to follow. It was worse to think of staying behind, to grind one day upon another. Nothing to hold me here. None to regret my leaving, save Az.

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