Debt Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“...instead I find myself more and more outside; from one courtyard I move to another courtyard, as if in this palace all the doors…

— Italo Calvino

“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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

“There is not a room in anie mans house, but is pestred and close packed with a camp royeale of divels.”

— Thomas Nashe

“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.”

— Djuna Barnes

“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

“I had often tried to get out of your room, having travelled all the way there. It frightened me to be caught in a…

— Sarah Ferguson

“FLIGHT OF FOLLY. WOMAN TRAPPED IN CAGE OF OPEN DOORS.”

— Janette Turner Hospital

“Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me.”

— Saul Bellow

“I can’t explain, maybe it isn’t something that needs explaining, how the sight of a broken cage just puts you up on stilts. The…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of…

— Various

“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a…

— Charles Dickens