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Quotes About Bound

maybe because the dark can only reach people at the extremes-- those bound by their own shiny ideas or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
~ Susan Cooper
Even the most egregious captive state, bound and gagged on her damp bunk, felt eerily familiar to her. With nothing to do but lie there and think of things, she reflected that captivity took many different forms. A woman under the domination of her father or husband was as much a prisoner as a hostage on a boat. She had merely traded one form of servitude for another.
~ Susan Wiggs
A wolf cannot outrun its shadow.
~ Josh Lanyon
This one has love for you, Eliz-a-beth," he murmured. "Since I took you from the sea, we were bound together." He pulled back, and his eyes sought hers. "Be you content, ki-te-hi, truly?
~ Judith E. French
Lovely house," Jack said, as he was led—hands still bound—through the grand entrance of Belgrave. He turned to the old lady. "Did you decorate? It has that woman"s touch." Miss Eversleigh was trailing behind, but he could hear her choke back a bubble of laughter. "Oh, let it out, Miss Eversleigh," he called over his shoulder. "Much better for your constitution.
~ Julia Quinn
some invisible cord kept him rooted to the spot.
~ Julia Quinn
It's impossible for one player to play the whole year. I've learnt that myself, and you're always bound to get injuries.
~ Jack Wilshere
Better to live with the guilty secret than the open truth of their life together - that they were bound by the habit of illicit lust, mutual degradation.
~ Fay Weldon
What I do not believe in, are incentives handed over as a kind of sop (you will find these everywhere) or in an owner sharing the proceeds of an asset sale unless contractually bound to do so. Use
~ Felix Dennis
And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick tock tick tock and one day we no longer let time serve us, we serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, worshipers of the sun's passing, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don't keep the schedule tight.
~ Harlan Ellison
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.
~ Haruki Murakami
That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I'm bound to break many more.
~ Haruki Murakami
Cuando su corazón se mueve, tira del mío. Como dos barcas atadas por una cuerda. Que no se puede cortar, pues no existe ningún cuchillo capaz de cortarla.
~ Haruki Murakami
A tethered thing is a dead thing...
~ Sonya Hartnett
One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.
~ Maya Banks, Rush
For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
~ Albert Camus
an obligatory manifestation of matter, bound to arise wherever conditions are appropriate.
~ Bill Bryson
Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room. Winning a way past us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. There was something so pantherlike in the movement, something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming.
~ Bram Stoker
Tireless, tied, as a moon-bound sea Moves --from Hardcastle Crags, written 1957
~ Sylvia Plath
Perhaps the young actor was bound in service to the magician, even belonged to him, was a slave, as Shaina herself was a slave.
~ Tanith Lee
The sight of her stunned me. Ropes of dense fog wrapped around her chest and neck, and the offshoots wove their way into her eyes, her ears, her mouth. She stood in a thin, shifting fog. And she was clearly unaware of any of it. Unaware that she'd bound herself to fear, which blinded her to the kingdom of heaven, in which she was the light.
~ Ted Dekker
Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.
~ Julie Powell
Another example of this is astrology. Multitudes of believers are subconsciously bound to the characteristics and weaknesses of their "zodiac sign." In their search for identity, this mixture of deceptive facts and illusions was absorbed into their soul, where it continues to stand even today in direct opposition to God's work of transformation. As Christians, the
~ Francis Frangipane
But the couple faced the room, Trina throwing back her veil. She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony. Was that all there was to it? Did just those few muttered phrases make them man and wife? It had been over in a few moments, but it had bound them for life. Had not something been left out? Was not the whole affair cursory, superficial? It was disappointing.
~ Frank Norris