“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".”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Mother told me once that some Westonians privately criticised Dad for retreating so soon. They apparently felt it would have been more dignified to have waited a week or so before running away. I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, “Let’s run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.”

“Walking away, it's not the same as running, is it to you now, that you've run this in the ground?”

“It's okay," my husband said, shuffling toward his study. "I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.”

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

“I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.”

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