Prisoners Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release.…

— Salman Rushdie

“Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with a gun…

— Paullina Simons

“He would live alone and broken, in a prison he could never escape, created by the brother he had betrayed.”

— Julia Mills

“ 'So this is it' he thought. After everything he had been through, after all the mysteries and fighting and fleeting moments of hope,…

— Josh Dashner The Scorch Trials

“...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

“For that smile, I'll forgive you for sleeping with any bastard." He almost went mad thinking about the chaos in his family, until in…

— Eka Kurniawan

“I ached for him, my stomach twisting painfully. He looked so desolate standing there alone facing a mad queen and several thousand angry fey.…

— Julie Kagawa

“All he had to contend with now were his memories, which weren’t pretty. In prison, he’d managed to stave them off with dreams of…

— Jeremy Duns

“He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They…

— Robert Jordan

“He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.”

— Iain M. Banks

“I wanted to believe he was mad. Unfortunately, I no longer knew what madness was.”

— James Lee Burke

“The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off.”

— Leonora Carrington