“You can run away from home
But you can't run away from your pain
I sit here alone
There's always someone else to blame.”

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

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) African Americans' rights activist

““Look,” said Jake, “last night, after you went to bed, we told your dad how we’d come across you running away from home.” “You did?” I said. “Yes, we did. It was the honest thing to do, son. And you should’ve seen the hurt look on your dad’s face, because, you see, Mexican kids don’t run away from home. White kids, gringo kids, like me and Luke, we’re the ones who run from home, but Mexicans, they ain’t never do that.”

Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer

“You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

“Running away
From the window of a classroom,
Alone,
I lay down among the ruins of a castle.”

Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer

“The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

“You're a coward, James.
You're running away from humanity.
You're running away from reality.
It won't be funny when they rat-a-tat-tat you down.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Fame and fortune is a magnet.
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.
Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend”

Hal David (1921–2012) American lyricist

“I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?”

Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio