Quotes About Restraint

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

How clever of them, I thought. They kept the feeling all secret; they wouldn't even let you write it down.

My room is a twittering gray box with a wall / there and there and there again.

They had the windows fixed so you couldn't really open them and lean out, and for some reason this made me furious.

I stepped on as many feet as I could because it took my mind off this enormous desire to puke that was ballooning up in front of me so fast I couldn't see round it.

I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

Sabía que debía estarle agradecida a la señora Guinea, sólo que no podía sentir nada. Si la señora Guinea me hubiera dado un pasaje a Europa, o un viaje alrededor del mundo, no hubiera habido la menor diferencia para mí, porque donde quiera que estuviera sentada -en la cubierta de un barco o en la terraza de un café en París o en Bangkok- estaría sentada bajo la misma campana de cristal, agitándome en mi propio aire viciado.

can our dreams ever blur the intransigent lines which draw the shape that shuts us in?

175 The Courage of Shutting-Up The courage of the shut mouth, in spite of artillery! The line pink and quiet, a worm, basking. There are black disks behind it, the disks of outrage, And the outrage of a sky, the lined brain of it. The disks revolve, they ask to be heard — Loaded, as they are, with accounts of bastardies.

Nossos sonhos podem obscurecer as linhas intransigentes que desenham os contornos que nos aprisionam?

It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.

Datta, dayadhvam, damyata (Give, sympathize, control)

The word within a word, unable to speak a word

I always feel it's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Humility is endless.

Existen muchas clases de prisiones. Jarnauga

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

handcuffs, no pistol-whipping . . .

She decided to be quiet for now. There was a Yamani saying: "You need never unsay anything that you did not say in the first place.

The hardest lesson any of us must learn is there's only so much we can do," she informed him, her voice lemon-tart. "We run into it headfirst all the time, knowing what we can do, what we can't, how much we can do. We think of magic as this promise that we will fix anything that comes our way, Keth. We can't.

Shut your gob, You tell me nothing in my kennel. Here, I am Queen Bitch, and you will muzzle yourself. Kebibi Ahuda to prisoner

I did not say I knew swiving well what my spirit called for, and it was not a curst cage!

What is reality after all, he said. Did we not invent all this, are we not God, any and all of us? He spread his own elegant hand on the table. I could pass my hand through the wood as if through water. Any man, any woman, could do it. No chains, no bindings. It's a world of chaos restrained solely by the human mind, which then, afraid of itself, steps back and says, see this colossal machine over which I have no power at all.