{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Jennings Michael Burch","tags":["confinement","family","foster-care","memoirs","neglect","nun","runaway","stuffed-animals","youth"],"id":30763,"author_id":"Jennings+Michael+Burch"},{"text":"How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.","author":"Peter May","tags":["clocks","disappointment","runaway","time","time-passing-slips-like-sand"],"id":31017,"author_id":"Peter+May"},{"text":"Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth turned the dark skin of the fiery balloon midnight blue. They flew straight up. Above them, the sweet, clear music of the lonely pipe called to them. Then the smooth sky puckered into cloth-of-blue and drew aside. They passed straight through...","author":"Pauline Fisk","tags":["blue","descriptive","escapism","imaginative","piper","runaway","sky"],"id":39096,"author_id":"Pauline+Fisk"},{"text":"I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-'Well deserved, sir. Well deserved.'And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be run down because of it.","author":"M.T. Anderson","tags":["runaway","war"],"id":161451,"author_id":"M.T.+Anderson"},{"text":"You ask me to write you a poem,I pen you an empty ocean,You run away.You ask me who I am,I paint you a breaking sky,You weep in the rain.","author":"Jenim Dibie","tags":["art","cry","life","love","pain","poet","poetry","poets","rain","run-away","runaway"],"id":164475,"author_id":"Jenim+Dibie"},{"text":"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.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["angst","backwater","danvers-state","drama","emotional","friendship","gross","heaert-heartbreak","mental-hospital","mommy","normal","norman-bates","parent","rebellion","runaway","rural","small-town","teen-roance"],"id":167552,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"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?","author":"Colson Whitehead","tags":["bondage","prison","runaway","slavery","status"],"id":199892,"author_id":"Colson+Whitehead"},{"text":"Runaway my phantom bride and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers float away specter and take the rest of my desire.","author":"A.P. Sweet","tags":["bride","desire","phantom","poisonous","runaway"],"id":247762,"author_id":"A.P.+Sweet"},{"text":"People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["coward","cowardice","escape","fear","game","love","love-game","medal","race","runaway","trophy","vanish","win","winning"],"id":248520,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.","author":"Claire Wong","tags":["changing-your-mind","commit","decisions","life-changing","life-changing-events","point-of-no-return","runaway","running-away","running-away-from-problems","thinking-things-through","thinking-twice","turn-back"],"id":298264,"author_id":"Claire+Wong"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}