“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”

“You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.”

“thought about having one last kiss, but in the end the only way she could leave was to walk away without looking back.”

“This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.”

“Daggers. Never leave home without them.”

“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.”