Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

“The frustrating thing about cages is that you’re trapped but you can see exactly what you want. You can reach out from the cage,…

— Roxane Gay

“But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to…

— Simon Van Booy

“They made an ingenuous and disorganized effort to escape from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars of the…

— Daniel Quinn

“You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.”

— David Foster Wallace

“No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.”

— Jessica Spotswood

“A prison cell, however tastefully decorated, is still a cage.”

— Darren Main

“If you’re trapped in a cage, you don’t want to start being grateful for the protection of the bars. You need to be grateful…

— Beth Kempton

“I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.”

— Kat Zhang

“This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.”

— Bernie Mcgill

“Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside.”

— Beth Kempton

“It’s dangerous to be grateful for the cage that traps you.”

— Beth Kempton

“There are people who cannot resist the desire to get into a cage with wild beasts and be mangled.”

— Henry Miller