Quote by Holly Black

“Sometimes it seemed as though all her life was already used up in that dark basement, as if her mother’s mouth on Tana’s arm…

— Holly Black

“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 fight with a bloodthirstiness I wouldn't expect outside a maximum-security prison or suburban PTA meeting.”

— Eliza Crewe

“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.”

— Ashim Shanker

“Why'd you come after me? he says. Back at Hopetown. That cellblock was on fire. You'd hafta be crazy to go in there. But…

— Moira Young

“Some people rushed into danger without a thought for their own safety. Others ran away. And some froze. I fitted into the latter group.”

— Estelle Ryan

“In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.”

— Holly Black

“I have to admit I didn't see it coming. I saw a multitude of other things. Being publicly humiliated, tortured, and executed. Fleeing through…

— Suzanne Collins

“I was fucked and I knew it. I had stupidly wandered into some epic rape palace run by meth-addicted hobos and bald men with…

— Karina Halle

“A prisoner of he who has already slain you once, he thought. No doubt near to his place of power, in a cage built…

— Roger Zelazny

“I felt like I’d fallen into the rabbit hole, and warnings were firing off left and right. Something primal inside me recognized that I…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“That was torture--being able to see, and smell, and hear, and being trapped in a cage. Like standing on the wrong side of the…

— Lauren Oliver