Leaving Quote by Mary Jennifer Payne

“I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After…

— Sylvia Plath

“We haven't stopped running, but we are getting slower. We have little people running with us now. We have passed others. Our own people…

— N.D. Wilson

“My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay…

— Richard Ford

“Running as family. One of the best experiences of my life.”

— Kara Goucher

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“...and now I just keep running. Maybe not physically anymore, but my mind and heart are backpacking through the darkest corners of the world…

— Nyrae Dawn

“When you welcome what you've been running from, your life is no longer shaped by trying to avoid it.”

— Kim Rosen

“It's time you stop running, little Loner.”

— Skye Callahan

“When I first started running, it was easy. I was young and healthy. Then I quit and had to start again years later when…

— Toni Sorenson

“I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, pursuing only what could…

— George Monbiot

“So here I am, watching you run. I wish you'd stop trying to leave. How easy you forget that you're my reason to breathe.”

— A. Meredith Walters

“It was more like when I was little and used to run everywhere for the sheer fun of fast moving.”

— Joshilyn Jackson