All Quotes By Tag: Prison

“On the forever days in the forever dark, Eli’s voice had held Adrian together.”

“Most criminals in prison can trace their crime to their first murderous act—that of killing time.”

“Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn’t have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.”

“While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.”

“When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.#minoradjustments101”

“Imagine the thoughts of serial killer and mutilator Jeffrey Dahmer when he ended up in prison. He felt great remorse, which he confessed on several occasions. He had ruined his life beyond repair. If Wisconsin had the death penalty, he would have earned it. Who could he turn to except God? Certainly no human would hear the cries of his heart and believe the depth of his sorrow. Only God could.”

“Easter recognizes that I am living in a prison of my own making, and that God is in the demolition business.”

“bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell.”

“anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.”

“They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.”

“He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger’s name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain.”

“You are in your own prison.”

“The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it’s our will alone that leads us to one or the other.”

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”

“Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.”