Runaway Quotes

I wish I could run away,” Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients’ rooms, darting around like little ants. “I can’t leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway.”“Why?” asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air.Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. “It’d break her heart if I left.”“Ain’t that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin’ up?”“Not for me, it isn’t.”Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. “So, you wanna keep bein’ towed around with your mom, livin’ in a gross town like Danvers?”“Is there a choice?”“Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it’s too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-Well deserved, sir. Well deserved.And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be run down because of it.

~ M.t. Anderson

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

~ Stacey Lee

You ask me to write you a poem,I pen you an empty ocean,You run away.You ask me who I am,I paint you a breaking sky,You weep in the rain.

~ Jenim Dibie

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

~ Haruki Murakami

runaway my phantom bride and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers float away specter and take the rest of my desire

~ A.p. Sweet

I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me

~ Laurie Matthew

Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.

~ Jill Telford

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

~ Claire Wong

As the bus took us north on a connection of dark farm roads and smaller highways, I started to wonder where all the cars were. How could the streets be so empty? How could people sleep when there was so much at stake, so much happening, when there were so many reasons to be awake and alive? And I wondered how it was that I could feel both empty, like these streets, and yet so full at the same time. And those weren't the only contrasting poles inside me. I felt sad and happy. Scared and exhilarated. I felt young and old.

~ Dana Reinhardt

No matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.

~ Rene Denfeld

I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.

~ Claire Wong

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?

~ Colson Whitehead

You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

~ Stacey Lee

Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth turned the dark skin of the fiery balloon midnight blue. They flew straight up. Above them, the sweet, clear music of the lonely pipe called to them. Then the smooth sky puckered into cloth-of-blue and drew aside. They passed straight through...

~ Pauline Fisk

How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.

~ Peter May