Prison Quotes

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There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the… — Suzanne Collins
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would… — Isabel Allende
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. — Roberto Bolano
...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because… — Nicholas Sparks
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. — Antonio Porchia
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls… — Lauren Oliver
Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison — John Marsden
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to… — Jay-Z
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the… — Pearl S. Buck
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from… — Paullina Simons
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him,… — Rebecca West
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose… — Holly Black
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with… — Victor Hugo
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. — John Ortberg
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? — Lorrie Moore
In the Sapient tongue he said softly, â€˜Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?â€™ â€˜Is it?â€™ Sapphique replied in the same language, his… — Catherine Fisher
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes. — Philip K. Dick

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