Runaways Quotes

“Runaways are romantic. The girls are waiflike with dyed ratty hair and baggy pants. They usually own a stray dog of the mutt variety and drag it along by a rope, plopping down in front of storefronts to beg for money from passersby. They're a mess. It is likely they'll charm you, make you think you're their best friend and savior only to end up using you and then they'll disappear. That's why they're romantic. They're there and then they're gone. Romance is always about people appearing in a flash out of nothing or people who are there and then suddenly are not. A magic trick.”
― Bett Williams, Girl Walking Backwards

“I wish I could break this window. Step through it. But I can't break this window. I can't even find some less dramatic way to die inside of this school, like hanging myself or slitting my wrists, because what would they do with my body? It might put everyone at risk. I won't let myself do that.

I'm not selfish like Lily.

I hate her. I hate her so much my heart tries to crawl out of my throat but it gets stuck there and beats crazily in the too narrow space. I bring my hands to my neck and try to massage it back down. I pres so heard against the skin, my eyes sting, and then I'm hurrying back down the stairs, back to the first floor. I think of Trace running laps, something he can control.”
― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test

“Gert: What... what just happened?
Chase: I don't know, but guess who totally stole Cookie Monster's glasses!
Gert: Whew, for a second there, I was worried we almost learned something.
Chase: Ooo, look at me! I'm a big fluffy nerd!”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Runaways: The Complete Collection, Vol. 2

“There are a great number of what appear to be teenage runaways, but in Portland it seems that even the elderly dress as if they are teenage runaways, in hoodies and kerchiefs and ragged jeans, stinking of patchouli and dirty feet, and one tattooed old man even rolls by on a skateboard.”
― Dan Chaon, Stay Awake

“If I'm an archangel, you can hide under my wing
until the sun
comes up”
― Andy Seven, HSTQ: Fall 2020

“Harper laughed awkwardly at my awkwardness because awkwardness is always multiplied and never divided.”
― Anne Social, Run Away

“The land is thirsty. People are thirsty. But only blood will bring back the rain.”
― Kelan Gerriety, Crimson Skies

“I write, like anybody else, about how it is to be human." -- Mark Merlis”
― Arlie Corday, Cinderella Shoots the Moon

“The sky is stained red with the blood of a thousand dying sacrifices.”
― Kelan Gerriety, Crimson Skies

“We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress and amaze us. Come home, Bod.”
― Neil Gaiman

“At some point in the night, Dad had died, and we’d been left to figure out the rest of our lives, or at least the next few hours.”
― Jenna Marcus, Breathe Deep & Swim

“I'd come unglued. That's why I usually don't let any tears fall. They get you wet. Your glue washes off.”
― Anne Social, Run Away