Trapped Quotes - Page 18

• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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• If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

  Jaron Lanier

  Calling, Enough, Used

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• We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Cutting, Mass Extinction

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• ...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Energy, Conservative

  Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

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• Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

  Renny Harlin

  Strange Places, Cards, Credit

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

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• I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?" "I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says. "And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.

  Erin Morgenstern

  White, Black, Add

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.179, Random House

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• A writer is a world trapped in a person.

  Victor Hugo

  World, Persons

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• If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.

  Iris Marion Young

  Thinking, Numbers, Racism

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• Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with.

  Jim Sinclair

  Children, Color, Autism

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• I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.

  Karen Hesse

  Thinking, Rooms, Drowning

  Karen Hesse (2004). “The Music of Dolphins”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Hands, Forever

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• She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Taken, Character

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
  Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
  The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
  Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Dream, Ocean, Secret

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• But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Sometimes, Kitten, Boxes

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

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• Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Media, Literature

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• Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?

  Nick Vujicic

  Vision, Traps, Circumstances

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• I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment when he takes his first bite of me.

  Katy Evans

  Animal, Waiting, Leaving

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• The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. But it was too late. "Noooooo!" He bellowed so hard it shook the mountain. "Not again!" Atlas was trapped under his old burden.

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Struggle, Sky

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fear, Thinking

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• Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays, Each thing save one thing: mid this strife diurnal, Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not; Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers, Find altered by-and-bye, When, with possession, time anon discovers, Trapped dreams must die, - For he that visions God, of mankind gathers, One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father's love for his son.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Dream, Father

  "The Certain Hour (To Robert Gamble Cabell II: In Dedication of The Certain Hour)". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1916.

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• Now I know surely and forever,
  However much I have blotted our
  Waking love, its memory is still
  there. And I know the web, the net,
  The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
  One brief instant it was not blind, nor
  Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
  Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
  I who am lost and damned with words,
  Whose words are a business and an art,
  I have no words. These words, this poem, this
  Is all confusion and ignorance.
  But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
  My heart beat one free beat and sent
  Through all my flesh the blood of truth.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Sweet, Art

  "She Is Away". Poem by Kenneth Rexroth. "In Defense of the Earth". Book by Kenneth Rexroth, www-personal.umich.edu. 1956.

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• Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Forever, Littles

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