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Quotes About Trapped

The compressed video clip in the packet was from the serial World Hoppers, from a story arc climax episode, when a secondary main character's mind had been taken over by a sentient brain-virus (I know) and the story was really much better than it sounds but it was the moment when the character said, I am trapped in my own body.
~ Martha Wells
The next time I'm trapped in a glass box at the bottom of the sea, I'll consider it." Vai, crouched by the throne, did sigh. Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him.
~ Martha Wells
Chills stood the hair on the back of his neck on end as he thought of being stuck down in the cavern, forever.
~ Mary Connealy
because often the counterpart to high potential is feeling trapped and unsure while not knowing why.
~ Unknown
Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.
~ Matt Haig
We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Made of flesh, but also stars.
~ Matt Haig
I was scared. What if I didn't die? What if I was just paralyzed, and I was trapped, motionless, in that state, forever?
~ Matt Haig
What if there was never a way? What if I am . . . trapped?' 'So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.' 'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.
~ Matt Haig
Amidst the Brambles, a changeling cannot help but feel exposed, vulnerable, and even trapped, and those feelings are not without merit.
~ Unknown
Arcángel Baleiro, el cazador. Ese hombre me cazó hace tiempo. Desde entonces nunca más he tenido descanso. Huir de un amor es la manera más perfecta de obedecerlo. Cuanto más dueña de mí misma, más esclava de ese amor. No hay río en este mundo que me libre de esa trampa.
~ Mia Couto
Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
~ Michael Moorcock
As a writer, you make yourself less real with each book you write. [...] The despair you feel is that of one who lives in two dimensions and is trapped inside a square, in the middle of an infinite piece of paper.
~ Unknown
Naasir was strong and fast and highly intelligent, but he was currently trapped in the heart of enemy territory, and that enemy did not fight according to any known rules of war.
~ Nalini Singh
Dorian looked down at the boy and felt the trapped leopard inside him rise in a protective crouch. "Then I guess he stays with us. Welcome to DarkRiver, Keenan Aleine.
~ Nalini Singh
Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
tantalizing possibilities. She hesitated, feeling trapped by a combination of her own desire to try everything, and a
~ Naomi Ragen
Jonah's breath came fast and shallow. I reached for his hand. He turned his face to me, his eyes wide with panic. Two frozen ponds. A boy screamed and pounded on the surface, trapped under the ice. Panicking. Trying to break through. But his screams faded, his fists flailed, and he slipped away into the dark. The boy was gone. Nothing left but the ice, clear and smooth enough to skate on.
~ Unknown
It was a trapped bird, but the sound it made had no anxiety in it, only sadness, impersonal and without hope.
~ Nathanael West
My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.
~ Unknown
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.
~ Nella Larsen
i was a prisoner of events
~ Unknown
She was trapped with a telepathic cat that wanted to go to the opera, in an elevator that had passed dungeon in favor of a lower floor - hell.
~ Unknown
Each day I deceived myself, unlike you who could never deceive yourself. Anxiety was trapped in the depths of my heart, like a formation of black clouds I could not break free of.
~ Osamu Dazai
To see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amor-- this will amuse me for a while longer, I think.
~ Patricia Briggs