Quote by Phaedra Patrick

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

— Ashim Shanker

“The best thing...perhaps the only good thing--about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he…

— Neil Gaiman

“The hours I would spend in the prison visiting room were among the most comforting of my life. They sped by, the only occasion…

— Piper Kerman

“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

“It got him killed, but at least he felt something.”

— Sarah Ockler

“He told him about his routines, how they had started out as a comfort and became a prison. (He was about to say that…

— Phaedra Patrick

“It excited him. He felt powerful. Alive,”

— Kimberly Derting

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

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

— Julia Mills

“Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by…

— John Irving

“It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Sometimes; I am caught in my building of emotions - but my prison has, curiously, no bars - and so I think, that escape,…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann