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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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• 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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• Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Apology, Silence, Leaving

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lonely, Voice, Perfect

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• Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me … with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.

  Lucy Christopher

  Stars, Mean, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• We easily become trapped in the 'someday' mentality. Someday I'll have all the money I need to enjoy life. Someday I'll be able to spent more time with my family. Someday I'll have time to relax and do what i love doing.

  Nick Vujicic

  Enjoy Life, Relax, Needs

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.199, WaterBrook

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• Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Skulls, Bird, Mind

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Layers, Dirt

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• Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Self, Forever

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• I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

  Rick Riordan

  Water, Overcoming, Given

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• Have I ever told you how sexy your brain is?" "Finally! A man who wants me for my brain." "I want all of you. Each individual part and the sum of them all. I want you for everything you are and everything you will ever be. I will never have enough of you, because there's no such thing." He stared right into my eyes, and I couldn't have looked away if I'd wanted to. I was trapped, and never in my life had I been so happy to be caught. "I will never let you go again.

  Rachel Vincent

  Sexy, Eye, Men

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• I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.

  Tablo

  Sleep, Grandmother, Doors

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• A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Freedom, Fighting, Men

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• How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Gratitude, Winning, Competition

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• We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.

  Julie Roberts

  Couple, Rainy Day, Waiting

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• When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Struggle, Safe Haven

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I start to think, and then I sink
  Into the paper like I was ink
  When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
  I escape when I finish the rhyme.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

  Song: I Know You Got Soul

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• The 9th chamber, leave you trapped inside my hallway
  You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)
  No question, I send your ass back, right to the essence
  Your whole frame is smothered in dirt, now how you restin

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Essence, Trying

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• Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Art, Children

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• I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
  I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

  Eminem

  Real, Air, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil part II, Album: The Slim Shady LP, 1999

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• A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

  Dave Barry

  Laughter, Anxiety, World

  "Dave Barry Elegy for the humorist" by Bryan Curtis, www.slate.com. January 12, 2005.

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