Trapped Quotes - Page 7

• This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

  Reks

  Rap, Past, Apples

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• I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

  Courteney Cox

  Moving, Skins, Faces

  "Courteney Cox Loves Botox, Therapy". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

  Greil Marcus

  Success, Stories, Rehabilitation

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

  Niels Bohr

  Play, Degrees, Statistics

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Events

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• The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

  Mary Daly

  Roots, Etymology, Sin

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• The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped.

  Marilyn Frye

  People, Way, Life Is

  Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

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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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• I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sitting, Feels, Knows

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.156, Random House

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• Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberated from gravity. My body is light. Ephemeral. My head is light. I want to sway beneath the weight of air, dizzy with thought. Light filters through my closed eyelids. The sun, chasing shadows, tells me I'm not afloat in dreams.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Winter, Light

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

  William Golding

  Exercise, Mastery, Tides

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• Just hold on. Just for a minute." "Are you all right ?" I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong. "I'm fine. I just...I don't want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about...I just...want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

  Jojo Moyes

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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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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