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"Run" Quotes

"Run" by Ann Patchett explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from a politically charged Boston neighborhood whose destinies collide amidst family secrets and racial tensions.

Quotes

The only way to get where you're going is to have someone take you there.

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friendshipdependence

You can't hold on to the past, and you can't hold on to the dead.

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letting goacceptance

There's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every beginning comes at the cost of an ending.

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new beginningschange

The truth doesn't make you a better person. It just makes you a person.

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truthhuman nature

The world we know is not the world as it is.

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perceptionreality

We can never extricate ourselves from the web of existing relationships.

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relationshipsconnection

The hardest part of seeing the future is not letting it disrupt the present.

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futureliving in the moment

We are the sum of the things we pretend to be.

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identitypretense

We are all of us monsters, it's only the degree that varies.

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human naturemorality

In the end, the only thing we can count on is each other.

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reliabilitytrust