Quotes About Confinement

Don't I have a choice in this?" But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all. And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won't be there.

Tyger might have thought of himself as a free spirit, but he wasn't at all. He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen.

We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

but Cam has come to understand that a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Prisoned in glass beneath my seals of red.

my poems are only bits of scratching on the floor of a cage.

Life is Tuesday afternoon in a cage.

Sometimes we can become too holy and therefore, caged.

the strongest manacles are born in the blood.

Yet in one way or another all of us - readers and writers alike - are ultimately prisoners of the documents. And the chains are hard to see

Being in jail was similar to being in a hospital bed: You're fine until you see or speak to someone from your family, and then you completely lose your shit.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

chained in the

Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.

As we drive up the river road, there are sixty thousand trees which I see but do not touch. Like me, Amanda is confined in the speeding Jeep, but she touches every tree.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

She opened the door, walked in and locked it tight behind her.

Boredom, which had begun as a mild infection, now took him over completely.

Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out? She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.