Convicts Quote by Amor Towles

“Where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green...”

— James Joyce

“It was that time every afternoon when prisoners were released from their cells for an hour and allowed to walk around the yard, get…

— Jeffrey Archer

“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those…

— Sarah Perry

“For others, the lure of a world where they fit is too great to escape, and they will spend the rest of their lives…

— Seanan McGuire

“How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn’t believe a world exists outside the prison walls?”

— Skye Jethani

“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a ‘less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble…

— Guy Lawson

“We havent´s escaped from our prison, we´ve just moved into a new one. And although there are countless places to hide, there´s nowhere to…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.”

— Albert Camus

“So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I…

— Hélène Cixous

One of the things I love about 'Orange' is I think we bring to light a lot of topics that, particularly in terms of…

— Adrienne C. Moore

“The greatest prison anyone can escape from is ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“if I've learned anything through all this, it's that you can't build walls around the people you care about. You can't do it to…

— Kay Hooper