“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
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Paul Flanner's father, Chapter 3, p. 24
2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)

“I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.”
Source: American Psycho
On inverting the clichéd romantic plot between a White male and Asian female in “Iizuka's '36 Views'” https://asiasociety.org/iizukas-36-views in Asia Society

Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Context: Acting or reacting, we carry him in us. You can't walk away from him any more than I can. Whether you travel toward or away, he'll be the compass. He'll be the glass, full of subtle colors and astigmatisms, through which all new things will be viewed. I too have a father who haunts me, and I know.