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“Children ran away. I knew this. They ran away for attention or because they were upset or frightened. They ran away because they were bored or because they didn’t get their own way. They came home.”
― C.R. Howell, The Woman in My Home

“Just leave. He hurts you. Walk away. And they assume we’re not strong. That we let people walk all over us. We’re passive. We let people control us.’ She shakes her head. ‘I’m none of those things. And I’m not the only woman in this situation who is strong.”
― Kathryn Croft, Two Mothers

“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass…”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“Miss Bean told me that as a girl she had many suitors, and if she did not marry, it was more from procrastination than from being passed over.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN