Quote by Stephen King

“It turned out to be easy to know where he was, even if he didn’t know where he was going.”

— shukyou

“He couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.”

— Philip Roth

“He wasn't sure what he was saying, either, but he felt as if he were slipping into some dangerous world - one where answers…

— Courtney Milan

“He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter...”

— William Carlos Williams

“He seemed horribly accepting of where he was, almost as if a way out seemed so impossible that he was just sitting out the…

— Jessica Thompson

“He was wrong, somehow, and he wanted to be all right, but it was almost as if there was some secret nobody would tell…

— Cynthia Voigt

“The staying and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might have happened.”

— Ali Benjamin

“Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.”

— Julianna Baggott

“He told himself it wasn't running away if you had someplace to be. The”

— Kit Rocha

“So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“He didn't like the thought of them knowing he'd been scared. Didn't like the thought of them knowing what a fool he'd been. Oh,…

— George Saunders

“...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability…

— Kimberly Gardner