Quotes About Captivity

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Chapin was secured in the backseat—the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason—and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word.

The small hairs on her arms and neck lifted as she stared at the blank spot on her map, where the kill site of her classmate showed through from beneath. They recovered Sandra and Mr. White's bodies where she had held them captive for days. There was no body dump because the police arrested Arleen before she could move her final victims. And just like that, she knew where they'd be. With that information came the possibility that she could save them.

Henry was staring at the sky. Palmer saw Henry for what he was: a captive, strong enough to warn him about last night, but too weak to do anything except follow Beans. He saw in Henry something of himself, and worse, what he could become.

In some versions of the story, the boy had been tortured, made to drink the blood of his captors, and forced to walk home naked. Except no one seemed to have a name to go with their stories. Who had been attacked?

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

Please wake me when I'm free I cannot bear captivity 4 I would rather be stricken blind Than 2 live without expression of mind

Cuando un pájaro ha permanecido en la jaula toda su vida, aunque se le abra la puerta no se va. El mundo exterior le da miedo.

Claudine tells me there was fluid around Bolombe's heart. That the stress of his capture was too much. I always thought hearts were broken, but apparently they drown.

Sometimes we catch them in jars for a minute before releasing them. Sometimes we wait too long to release them and find them dead. We know the names of the girls who keep the butterflies too long, and we have no idea what to do with this information.

I quickly found myself in the center of the room, trussed up to a sturdy, high-backed chair, which Joaquin happily assured me was an original Louis the Fourteenth. Oh goody. I'd hate to die bound to something from IKEA.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

Cass, Aly, and Marco were trapped in an invisible cage. And I was on the outside.

They locked her in the cage when she started to bleed.

Rastignac had no Skin. He was, nevertheless, happier than he had been since the age of five. He was as happy as a man can be who lives deep under the ground. Underground organizations are often under the ground. They are formed into cells. Cell Number One usually contains the leader of the underground. Jean-Jacques Rastignac, chief of the Legal Underground of the Kingdom of L'Bawpfey, was literally in a cell beneath the surface of the earth. He was in jail. For

Pris had now cut three legs from the spider, which crept about miserably on the kitchen table, seeking a way out, a path to freedom. It found none.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a king.

In her laugh was the admission of her captivity: to Norman, to menopause, to work, to aging, to everything that could only deteriorate further.