“Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.”

“Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

“You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

“Sometimes, my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run away from this. You cannot run from it. Wherever you run, it waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there, where you have run to. It waits for you, to ambush you. It is like those vines called lianas, those tropical creepers that grow around you and strangle you. You cut off one branch, but there is another that grows. You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.”

Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) German actor

“Be sure you have someone up your sleeve who will save you when you find yourself in deep s—.”

James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

“Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away".
"If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".”

Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952) American children's writer and editor

“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else…”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author