Quotes tagged ‘trapped’

(29 total)

“We are already locked into our own bodies.”

“You feel helpless, like you're trapped in the relationship.”

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.”

“He screamed something without words and flung the papers and paints into the dirty brown water… He watched them all disappear. Gradually his breath quieted, and his heart slowed from its wild pace. The ground was still muddy from the rains, but he sat down anyway. There was nowhere to go. Nowhere. E…”

— Katherine Paterson, amazon.com

“Neil Perry: 'I just talked to my father. He's making me quit the play at Henley Hall. Acting's everything to me. I- But he doesn't know! He- I can see his point; we're not a rich family, like Charlie's. We- But he's planning the rest of my life for me, and I- He's never asked me what I want!' John K…”

— Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, John Keating, Neil Perry, amazon.com

“Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you. Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me. Joel: Okay. Clementine: Okay.”

— Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth, Joel Barish, Jim Carrey, imdb.com

“I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blind eyes and sticky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

— Toni Morrison, books.google.com