Trapped Quotes - Page 10

• You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Who I Am, Imagine

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• Alric looked up at the thief with a scowl. “I just want to say for the record that as far as royal protectors go, you’re not very good.” “It’s my first day,” Royce replied dryly. “And already I’m trapped in a timeless prison. I shudder to think what might have happened if you had a whole week.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Thinking, Thieves, Records

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Moving, Sight

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• So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Color, People, American History

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

  Lionel Shriver

  Stories, Becoming

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.32, Counterpoint Press

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• People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

  Henry Louis Gates

  People, Culture, Study

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

  Anna Freud

  Past, Waiting

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• Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Dream, Freedom, Eye

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• People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Feel Better, Thinking, Arrows

  "The Last Wish". Book by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993.

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• It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Running, Risk, Would Be

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.19, Vintage

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• With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.

  Patrick Süskind

  Eye, Swamps, Danger

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

  John Steinbeck

  Sex, Men, Monsters

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.68, Penguin

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• A rose trapped inside a fist.

  Henry Rollins

  Rose, Fists

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.269, Villard

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• Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Soul, Environmental, Earth

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• Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

  David Levithan

  Lost, Found, Being True

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

  Sarah Kane

  Girl, Fighting, Sour Milk

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.185, A&C Black

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• Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?" "No thanks," said Nick. "We've got MTV.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Song, Mtv, Play

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2009). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

  Arundhati Roy

  Steps, Footprint, Swept Away

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.52, Penguin Books India

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• For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Silly, Moving

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

  John Irving

  Choices, Abortion, Needs

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• Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

  Anne Lamott

  Forgiveness, Mean, Lunch

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin

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• I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Suicide, Real

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• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

  John Cusack

  Real, Flip, Nightmare

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• I love the Italian culture, it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes, I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Attitude, Italian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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