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Quotes About Confinement

I'm so used to absolute freedom. I can shit anywhere. I can piss anywhere. I can take drugs. I can kill things. But in there I was nothing," he says. "For the first time in my life I felt what Ned Kelly felt. The last month has been hell. I don't think I was that mad. My own illness is news to me. They say that I'm borderline bipolar. That was odd – not to have the diagnosis but to swallow the diagnosis.
~ Erik Jensen
I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
At this point, a mental institution was a far likelier future home for Jenny than a prison. "But before I do, I need you to help me with something," Jenny said. "Out on the back deck. I've got two dozen containers of gasoline waiting." She shoved the butt of the gun into Maya's spine. "Go.
~ Bella Andre
You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.
~ Bella Pollen
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
~ Ben Franklin
parapets…I felt the battlements close in, enfolding
~ Ben Macintyre
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Security without liberty is called prison.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Prison gives you time to reflect.
~ Troy Deeney
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
I don't get to go out but an hour a day.
~ Susan Smith
Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.
~ Gillian Flynn
Un oraÅŸ atât de sufocant ÅŸi de mic, încât zilnic te împiedicai de oameni pe care îi urai.
~ Gillian Flynn
Nobody who wasn't down there
~ Glen Cook
So Lorraine found herself, on her knees, surrounded by the most dangerous species in existence—human males with an erection to validate in a world that was only six feet wide.
~ Gloria Naylor
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
~ Gloria Steinem
What's that like? 1) Picture being jailer to Harry Houdini; 2) multiply by five hundred.
~ Gordon Korman
Jonah shook his head, clucking in false sympathy. "Told you guys — no way out." They
~ Gordon Korman
People look at us and see the poor and the mad, but they're looking at us through the bars of their cages. There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
~ Grant Morrison
I wish we could shrink her," Sami suggested. "Make her supersmall and put her in a cage." Nikki liked the idea but saw a pitfall. "She'd get out and bite our ankles!
~ Gregg Olsen
The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.
~ Gregory Benford
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.
~ Gregory David Roberts
And because I was in love with her, I felt trapped by those fictions.
~ Gregory David Roberts