“No," his father replied, "you ran for you. I just hope you're running toward something, not away from something.”

“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.”

“When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.

'You're alive!' Frank marveled.

Percy frowned. 'The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.'

'You didHazel asked.”

“I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.”

“Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.”

“If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.”