Running Away Quotes - Page 4

• We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Running, Feelings, Want

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.35, Hendrickson Publishers

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• She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.

  Anne Ursu

  Running, Eye, Grandmother

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• I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Mean, Different

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.362, Penguin

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• Nobody likes cravens,” he said uncomfortably. “I wish we hadn’t helped him. What if they think we’re craven too?” "You're too stupid to be craven,” Pyp told him. “I am not,” Grenn said. “Yes you are. If a bear attacked you in the woods, you’d be too stupid to run away.” “I would not,” Grenn insisted. “I’d run away faster than you.” He stopped suddenly, scowling when he saw Pyp’s grin and realized what he’d just said.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Stupid, Thinking

  George R.R. Martin (2012). “A Game of Thrones: The Story Continues Books 1-5: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire)”, p.286, HarperCollins UK

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• People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

  William Trevor

  Running, People, Said

  William Trevor (2009). “Love and Summer”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Smart, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

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• Don't run away. Im not running away. Im already gone. -Lena and Ethan

  Kami Garcia

  Running, Gone, Already Gone

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• And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Running, Home

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.119, Random House

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• It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Records, Businessman

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Running

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.180, St. Martin's Press

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• Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.

  Lauren Myracle

  Running, People, Proud

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• where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

  Ted Hughes

  Running, Hate, Holes

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• Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that sun-kissed hue. If I reach out to touch her She’ll just run away My Forever and Always Will have to wait another day.

  Simone Elkeles

  Running, Waiting, Forever

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Coward, Way

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• It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Animal, Self

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• Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Simple, Special

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• The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Running, Lonely

  "The Secret Island (Secret Series, Book 1)". Book by Enid Blyton, 1938.

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• She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Running, Home, Heart

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• One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me.

  Jenny Lawson

  Running, Want, Panic

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

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• I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• Anything a person chases in life runs away.

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  Sherry Argov

  Running, Persons

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Numbers, People

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• If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from?

  Demi Lovato

  Running, Party, Next

  "Demi Lovato Is Our August Cover Girl!" by Logan Hill, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 30, 2013.

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• My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville’s too dangerous.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, My Boyfriend, Boss

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood: The Morganville Vampires”, p.95, Penguin

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• She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Running, Ties, Arms

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.142, St. Martin's Griffin

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