“Not that running away's going to solve everything . . . No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But not all right to run away.”— Miyuki Miyabe, amazon.com
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com