“Sometimes I felt like I was running from somewhere, but other times I felt like I was running to somewhere. (178)”
“Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!”
“Is it that I want to run away from what I have or do I want to run to somewhere or something else?”
“Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.”
“I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.”
“Sometimes my life here felt like a cage where I could never escape the pain. At other times it felt like the only firm ground on earth”