Hemlock Quote by William Shakespeare

“Everything was so arranged in the camp that the prisoners egged one another on. It was like this: either you got a bit extra…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Ashim Shanker

“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

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That…

— Matt Haig

“So I'd been captured? So I was starving? Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die? I could still slither. I could…

— Patrick Jennings

“Adrian. He was the reason I was able to survive in this prison. And he was also the reason I was here in the…

— Richelle Mead

“Maybe the insanity of life had stolen his reason.”

— Rita Webb

“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty…

— Rachel Kushner

“What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?”

— Orson Scott Card

“People were crazy with pain and secrets.”

— Anna Funder

“Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?”

— Richard Russo

“It was always tempting to look for reasons why crimes were committed. If you could find a reason then maybe you could stop something…

— Michael Leese