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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura
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runaway
shadow
travel
yourself
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Haruki Murakami |
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"Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them." "But if somebody loved one them," I asked, "wouldn't it be a good idea to let them have one? To keep, I mean?" "Yes, it would be. But not everyone would love them and take care of them as you would. I wish I could give them all away tomorrow." She looked at me. There were tears in her eyes. "But I can't. My heart would break if I saw just one of those animals lying by the wayside uncared for, unloved. No, Jennings. It's better if we keep them together." --
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family
foster-care
memoirs
neglect
nun
runaway
stuffed-animals
youth
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Jennings Michael Burch |
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A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger.
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runaway
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Bryce Courtenay |
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What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?
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prison
runaway
slavery
status
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Colson Whitehead |
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"I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway." "Why?" asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air. Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. "It'd break her heart if I left." "Ain't that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin' up?" "Not for me, it isn't." Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. "So, you wanna keep bein' towed around with your mom, livin' in a gross town like Danvers?" "Is there a choice?" "Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it's too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates."
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backwater
danvers-state
drama
emotional
friendship
gross
heaert-heartbreak
mental-hospital
mommy
normal
norman-bates
parent
rebellion
runaway
rural
small-town
teen-roance
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Rebecca McNutt |