Quotes About Encasement

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.

Trapped inside the snotrag," Keith said, "is a crumb of angel food trying to get out." Lana

We're all stuck in armor of a kind. Yours is merely easier to find.

I must trust my spacesuit not to fail. And i must remember, if i can, that really we are always in a spacesuit of one sort or another. We just don't usually see it so clearly.

It stayed like that: a rosy ring of jailed blood that came to the barred window and never left.

Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons.

No better book ends than two walls.

The job of the skin is to keep it all in. -The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

Four cables, attached to tracks on the buildings, break through the stones, dragging up the net that encases Mitchell. It makes no sense — how instantly bloodied he is — until we see the barbs sticking from the wire that encases him. I know it immediately. It decorated the top of the fence around 12.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.

husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93.   Yiddish's

I could feel formality wrapping around me, covering me like plastic wrap on leftover roast.

a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.