Leaving home Quote by E.L. Konigsburg

“Leaving. She didn’t want to leave. This was her home.”

— Melissa Pearl

“And then you run. Because the only thing worse than her being gone is that you're still here.”

— Tricia Rayburn

“…that would be too much like running away, and that, she would not do. She does not run—they cannot make her—she walks.”

— Whitney Otto

“It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.”

— Gregory Maguire

“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.”

— Susan Örnbratt

“It’s not always running away. To leave.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Some instinct older than civilization was telling her to run, to flee. She didn't move.”

— L.J. Smith

“I’d wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will.”

— Margaret Atwood

“She couldn’t run away from him. She’d be running from her own heart.”

— Kerrelyn Sparks

“It was home, a home, but he knew he would have to leave here, too.”

— Lisa Ko

“Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”

— Alice Hoffman