You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
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Tad Williams
The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live
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Bangambiki Habyarimana
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Imprisoned peace sets the war free
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Munia Khan
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything...
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Primo Levi
More Quotes By Kendall Kulper
Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.
Cursed, I was cursed, and my mother said she’d given up magic for good, said it was a terrible thing, but she wasn’t above using it to keep me at her side, and she’s a hypocrite, a liar, a fraud and phony, and I hate...
I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mother’s curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside I was screaming.
I am going to be murdered. It wasn’t any easier to face in the daytime.
This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!
