Escaping Quote by G.A. Aiken

“Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He…

— Orson Scott Card

“He couldn't move. Running would get him killed. Fighting would get him killed. …Standing where he was, trembling and sweating, would get him killed.”

— Ruth Ford Elward

“He will run and run until he stops—he may never stop. He is alive, but his daughter is dead.”

— Courtney Elizabeth Mauk

“It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he’d spent running down the wrong road.”

— James S.A. Corey

“Lot had always enjoyed running, it gave him a beautiful freedom from his own insecurities. It was an opportunity to switch everything off, transfer…

— Dave Johnston

“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the pavement, completely…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what made we want to stay.”

— Abbi Glines

“That’s when he’d run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and…

— Carmen Amato

“If he knew I was doing a year from now already, he’d run and I’d be obliged to cheer him on.)”

— Gillian Flynn

“Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond;…

— John L. Parker Jr

“It was fear. Fear that, after all the years of protecting his health, his heart, his mind, setting bedtimes and boundaries, giving warnings about…

— Lisa Unger

“playing upon his hopes and fears to reduce him to complete servility, certain to kill him if he broke away, and certain to kill…

— C.S. Lewis