Family Quote by Jim Butcher

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with…

— Simon Van Booy

“She escaped from the schools when she turned eighteen. And she went on to be a Doctor, because the only way to fight what…

— Leah Bobet

“Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a…

— Susan Wiggs

“It was during this period that she would wake in the night and get out of bed to go to her parents’ room, only…

— Christina Baker Kline

“made her realise, again, how lucky she’d been to grow up in a secure, loving home.”

— Sarah Hilary

“She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.”

— Nikki Rowe

“She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn’t fly away. All her time was taken…

— Joan London

“Nothing was right with her parents gone, no matter how much she'd tried to go on without them.”

— Caragh M. O'Brien

“And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.”

— Robyn Schneider

“We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.”

— Sherman Alexie

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time…

— Philip Pullman