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Quotes About Forbidden

The main meat that our people like to eat is what they have been taught not to eat -- the cheap and filthily-raised hog. This is a divinely-prohibited flesh. This truth has been before our eyes ever since we have had permission from the white man to read the Bible. Nothing good is said about it in the Bible in Leviticus.
~ Elijah Muhammad
Volumes upon volumes on exploration, war, violence, the life-threatening transformative journeys of man. But you can't talk about this. The fucking, the sadness, the dark, the blood, the light. They will burn you at the fucking stake for this shit.
~ Elisa Albert
Also, this library admits (is allowed to admit on certain conditions) some books forbidden generally by the censureship, which is of the strictest; and though Balzac appears very imperfectly, I am delighted to find him at all
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Does a Prince of Faerie love a mortal man?" "It's not encouraged.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Fae should know better than to love mortal men.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The list of what the world would not allow was long for mourning over.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Everyone else had forgotten, or was forbidden from remembering, which came to the same thing. Dust had never been human, but he remembered.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She knew what they had been up to, of course; it would have been hard to miss it, between the giggling and the scent of sex-and nobody had ever warned her how disturbing it would be to hear a necromancer giggle-but that was all right, wasn't it?
~ Elizabeth Bear
She let her hand slide across the tailored dark fabric of his trousers before leaning back, curling against the arm of the loveseat in a manner that would have horrified her tutors.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A man with no name may you claim, heart and body and soul. Then rich life might grow, but death will surely flow. "'In shades of darkness he will come to you. If you touch him, you will know life that might or death that will. "'Be therefore as sunlight, hidden in amber, untouched by man, not touching. "'Forbidden.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
At the beginning of our relationship, my heart pounded so loudly whenever I stood near him. He had an effect on me that no aspiring vicar should have on a young woman.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
His lips turned upward. "Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.
~ Elizabeth Scott
They had never kissed, nor even touched, only passed by each other closely as they went into his office, a tiny cubicle off the library - they avoided the teachers' room. But after he said that that day, she lived with a kind of terror, and a longing that felt at times unendurable. But people endure things.
~ Elizabeth Strout
for in eating of the forbidden fruit our first parents committed an act of theft. Is it not then something more than a coincidence that we find a "thief" (yea, two thieves) connected with the second Tree also?
~ Arthur W. Pink
The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I have a huge favor, but I should warn you up front it's not just dangerous. It's illegal.
~ B.J. Daniels
A forbidden love that ended badly.
~ B.J. Daniels
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.
~ Asa Larsson
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.
~ Dorothy Allison
I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed
~ Garth Nix
The Lord knows I shouldn't have done that . . ." he said to his men. "The Lord forbid that I . . . attack the Lord's anointed one, for the Lord himself has chosen him." —1 Samuel 24:6
~ Gary Chapman
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS VEHICLE (THE OBJECT) UNTIL YOU ARE .5 MILES FROM THE SECURITY PERIMETER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. BY READING THIS SIGN YOU HAVE DENIED EXISTENCE OF THE OBJECT AND IMPLIED CONSENT.
~ Gary Shteyngart