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Quotes About Run away

the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness. As soon as you cease to be frank, you see a stain, you are forced to acknowledge imperfection, and you want only to run away and hide in shame.
~ Rachel Cusk
This is the story of how, for years, I pretended I hated the color blue. But what the peacock can do is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life: My favorite color is peacock blue. My favorite color is peacock blue. My favorite color is peacock blue.
~ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Don't let your imagination run away with you, Miss Armstrong. But why would you not when the reality was so awful? And that was that. Juliet's war.
~ Kate Atkinson
No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.
~ The Doctor
Lucky for you, since you're the most dangerous man I've ever met. A sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
~ Alyssa Day
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
I have lots of faith, the fallen angel said as he crouched down and coaxed the dog closer. I have faith that this is a bad idea. She's not going to belive you. She's going to think we're nuts. She's going to call the police unless she has a record, and if she does she'll run away.
~ Kim Harrison
Someone tattooed my initials on their ring finger, and I felt that it was extreme. I freaked out and ran away from there at that time but now when I think about it, I realise how sweet and what a huge commitment it was and I appreciate it. However, at that time I found it extremely weird and didn't know how to deal with it but to just run away.
~ Rohit Saraf
We have seen that it can be better to surrender than to fight; faced with a more powerful opponent and a sure defeat, it is often also better to surrender than to run away. Running away may save you for the time being, but the aggressor will eventually catch up with you. If you surrender instead, you have an opportunity to coil around your enemy and strike with your fangs from close up.
~ Robert Greene
Heather is not at school today. Everybody is griping about her lame decorations. I bet she calls in sick the rest of the year. Heather should run away and join the Marines immediately.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
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
You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.
~ Steve Perry
I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.
~ John Banville
We cannot continue to flounder along with no attempt at a plan," he began firmly. "You've rejected mine. Have you a better?" "Run away was not my idea of a plan." She cocked an eye at him. "And when did I become we?" His mouth, tightening, paused. The first hour I saw you at Boar's Head, five gods help me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't intend to run away from a girl. Jo can't prevent my seeing her, and I shall stay and do it as long as I like, interrupted Laurie in a defiant tone. Not if you are the gentleman I think you. I'm disappointed, but the girl can't help it, and the only thing left for you to do is to go away for a time. Where will you go?
~ Louisa May Alcott
And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I can do to not melt into a fit of giggles. [...] If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
~ Sara Gruen
Dreams, and plans, and a stark desire to change your life, all on your own. I wanted that too, but I didn't want to have to run away to do it.
~ Sarah Dessen
I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
~ John Adams
I would have don't anything for her, on that morning of reconciliation: run away from home, leave the neighborhood, sleep in farmhouses, feed on roots, descend into the sewers through the grates, never turn back, not even if it was cold, not even if it rained.
~ Elena Ferrante
Plan F, we follow Plan F, right now. - Is that the one where we run away? - Not at all. It's the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
~ Haley Reinhart
The next morning, Shane, swollen and battered, renewed his vow to run away. He told Nikki that if she didn't go with him, he'd go on his own. He'd had enough.
~ Gregg Olsen
We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.
~ Johann Lamont