Run for the Hills Quotes

“That's the thing with quests, she realized. You had to get back to where you started. And then you had to keep living. The danger of a quest, of getting eaten by a dragon or stabbed by an orc, was tolerable vecause you at least wouldn't have to ride a Greyhound back home, weighed down with all the emotional trauma of what you'd done.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“But she also knew that this was the tenderness of wanting a person you care about to avoid this kind of pain. Maybe every single moment of loving someone you helped make was connected to this low-level terror that hurt your heart.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“Maybe the only way to keep living was to willingly forget large parts of the narrative of your life and then just live with what was”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills

“That was all family had to be, at the most basic level, someone seeing you, even if you didn't know what they saw.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“Mad had never tried acid, but each new meeting with a sibling felt like a different possibility if you took acid.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“Now she realized that she had been holding too much of the burden, that, depending on how many half siblings she now had, they had all been carrying more than they needed of their father's legacy, holding him up for so long that it made their father weightless, able to walk on water, to escape, to never be bound to anything if it did not interest him any longer.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“You could expand your horizons as long as you occasionally got to run right back to the only thing you really knew.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“It was not something she cared for, relying on anyone else, hoping she got what she wanted.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel