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run away Quotes

20 of the best book quotes about run away
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“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.”
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“Mindfulness puts an end to such a limited perspective. The Buddha faced his own suffering directly and discovered the path of liberation. Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.”
03
“the dish run[ning] away with the spoon,” and imagines what happens next.
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In this story, the dish and the spoon run away to be performers, but end up having a hard life that involves 25 years in prison!
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“Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, ‘I am running away.’ ‘If you run away,’ said his mother, ‘I’ll run after you. For you are my little bunny.’ ”
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″ ‘If you run after me,’ said the little bunny, ‘I will become a fish in a trout stream and I will swim away from you.’ ‘If you become a fish in a trout stream,’ said his mother, ‘I will become a fisherman and I will fish for you.’ ”
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″ ‘If you are a gardener and find me,’ said the little bunny, ‘I will be a bird and fly away from you.’ ”
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″ ‘Shucks’, said the bunny, ‘I might just as well stay where I am and be your little bunny.’ ”
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″ ‘Lawks!’ Jemmy thought. Hadn’t the prince run away in royal style! He had even brought a china plate, a silver spoon and a silver knife for himself.”
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“Woe to those boys who rebel against their parents and run away from home. They will never come to any good in the world, and sooner or later they will repent bitterly.”
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“Please Mrs Butler. This boy Derek Drew. Keeps calling me rude names, Miss. What shall I do? Lock yourself in the cupboard, dear. Run away to sea. Do whatever you can, my flower. But don’t ask me!”
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“He played where they were fixing the street and got very dirty.”
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“Captain Tinker wanted me to go to school. He’ll be very disappointed in me if I run away. I ought to go back. I will go back...”
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“Although there were many other things to do, Harry began to wonder if his family thought that he had really run away.”
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“Being indentured is just like being in jail. If you run away, someone will c-c-capture you and bring you b-b-back.”
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“Three children sliding on the ice all on a summer’s day as it fell out, they all fell in, the rest they ran away. Now, had these childredn been at home, or sliding on dry ground, ten thousand pounds to one penny, they had not all been drowned.”
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“Dreaming of a home of his own, Rasmus runs away from the orphanage and meets Paradise Oscar, a remarkable tramp who takes Rasmus along on his travels, where they encounter adventure from both robbers and police.”
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Revolvers go off accidentally; and when they have gone off, people lose their heads and run away, fearing that their story will not be believed. Nevertheless, when people run away, whether innocently or guiltily, one can’t help wondering which way they went.
Source: Chapter 3, Line 84
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“If you don’t trust your man, you may as well run away at once. That’s what some of our horses do, and I don’t blame them.
Source: Chapter 13, Paragraph 45
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“No, you won’t run away. A peasant would run away, a fashionable dissenter would run away, the flunkey of another man’s thought, for you’ve only to show him the end of your little finger and he’ll be ready to believe in anything for the rest of his life.
Source: Chapter 34, Paragraph 69

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