Adolescence Quote by Bill Bryson

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he…

— Gillian Flynn

“...it made him feel alive. He needed a jolt to his system. Something to shake him out of the cozy prison he had created…

— Phaedra Patrick

“Over months of being with him, my prison had become my sanctuary, and now that I was free, the world was my prison. There…

— Kitty Thomas

“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I fumbled around in the basement of my soul in search of the small, sensible fellow who often comes to the rescue during emergencies.…

— Max Frei

“Apparently he took apart the whole prison and rebuilt it upside down without anybody noticing – until he escaped and it was too late.”

— Richard Clark

“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now…

— Ingeborg Bachmann

“As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.”

— Upton Sinclair

“This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been…

— Rupert Thomson

“he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart,…

— Thomas Wolfe

“How abandoned by me he must feel. In his first interview, he tried to protect me from the Capitol and rebels alike, and not…

— Suzanne Collins