“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

— Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

Taylor Horn (1992) American musician and actor

On what she would probably do if she weren't performing.
From the documentary Britney's Redneck Roots. Quote from The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5264115-103689,00.html, unidentified issue.

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“Give him what he wants and he'll go away.”

Stephen King Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century (1999), Taglines

“You're all I want! You're all I have! GO AWAY!.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

“She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”

Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur

Source: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: Finally and Forever

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

“We will go far away,
To nowhere,
To conquer,
To fertilize,
Until we become tired;
Then we will stop
And there will be our home.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

"Home of the Shape," p. 7
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Home of the Shape”

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

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