Binding Quotes

“If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kiss of the Highlander

“You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“If your going to be a jackass then do it outside of your home, as your home is supposed to be a place of love and safety, it's your sanctuary from the outside world. The only place where we can truly be accepted.”
― Lisa Marie Main, Morning Light Coven

“The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.”
― Ellen J. Barrier, The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

“Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.”
― Debasish Mridha

“I thought of how much they all wanted to be free; how they went mad wanting their freedom; I began to wonder whether it was I that was mad because I was happy to be bound; whether I was alone in knowing that I could not live without the clamour of the voices within me.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

“Affection expressed physically made friendship so complete and binding.”
― Gordon Merrick, The Lord Won't Mind

“Bind me to your will, bind me with these threads of sorrow, and gather me out of the afternoon where I have torn my soul on twenty monstrous altars, offering all things but myself.”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy

“Impressive deduction,” Ryan murmured. “You certainly look deeper than most.” He brushed back a strand of my hair, and I screwed my eyes shut. He was doing this on purpose. “But let me give you some advice.” His lips were right next to my ear. “I wouldn’t peer too far. Even the clearest window can cast back your own reflection.”
― Sam Dogra, The Binding

“As she began to speak she stood and started to wrap herself, expertly, creating a binding in minutes that held without a wrinkle until the show ended. Peggy made a connection between binding her breasts and wrapping her hands in boxing wraps; this was what one did before battle, to protect one's self (and it is the Self, absolutely, that binding protects for many butches).”
― S. Bear Bergman, Butch Is a Noun

“The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.”
― Victor Shamas

“Love is Not Bound By Anything, Nor Does it Bind Anything.”
― Syed Sharukh

“Memories,” she said, at last. “Not people, Emmett. We take memories and bind them. Whatever people can’t bear to remember. Whatever they can’t live with. We take those memories and put them where they can’t do any more harm. That’s all books are. Finally I met her eyes.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“My jaw went slack. Private rooms? Great, the button thing had been a step too far. Either he was totally getting the wrong impression—at least, not the impression I wanted to give—or…no. I didn’t want to consider the possibility he might know. People didn’t hide in forests in the middle of the night to protect themselves from a Binding. I was just weird like that. Rather, I had no choice, but…argh, what was I going to do now?!”
― Sam Dogra, The Binding

“So why hadn’t he confronted me? Why hadn’t he torn through my lies and forced me to own up that I’d caught him in a Binding? It wasn’t like he could just brush this off. And that smile before he left, as if he’d been pulling my leg to see my reaction…

I shook my head. Ryan was certainly providing his fair share of riddles. There was the tiny possibility he was still clueless and was just teasing me, but I doubted anyone could be that naïve. Even him. My mind began to tick over, desperate for an answer. Only one other thing stuck out in his behaviour. Maybe he was going for a fair exchange strategy. He wouldn’t question my secrets, in the hope I wouldn’t question his.

Now that was naïve.”
― Sam Dogra, The Binding

“My heart almost vaulted out of my chest. I was snuggled against Ryan’s shoulder. We were burrowed under the cloak and sleeping bag, and my hand rested on his cheek, about to swat the stray hair that had fallen over my face. This wouldn’t have been so bad, if not for one tiny detail.

Ryan was awake.”
― Sam Dogra, The Binding

“Adam glanced at me. His grin was back. I’d forgotten how easily he could wind me up.
“You know, Eliza,” he said, “maybe you’re missing something here.”
“You’re going to be missing a few teeth if you don’t explain yourself,” I growled.”
― Sam Dogra, The Binding

“I remained silent, adrift in a torrent of mixed feelings. The Binding urged me to curl up in his embrace, to lose myself in his scent and surrender to his lips again; however, my own thoughts begged me to turn away. I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t deny there was something between Ryan and me, but what? It was the curse!
It had always been the curse…”
― Sam Dogra, The Binding

“Ryan, if you abandon me here, I will have no choice but to tell your father,” Navinka cut in. “You don’t want Aronzo and his men prowling after you again.” She gave a stretch. “I can inform Lord Glenford we are joining my father in Dragonvale. The East Pass is a safe route. He will not insist on sending a further escort.” She flashed a deadly smile. “I can make your life easier or more difficult. I leave the choice to you.”
― Sam Dogra, The Binding

“...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.”
― Pietro Candido Decembrio

“It was just information. Such is the nature of most things synthetic. It was connectivity that was only connectivity, a noun, no other binding.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Any challenge can be met with the correct instrument, you see. But it is a burden. Strings bind me, just as they bind her.”
― Uri Gatt Gutman, Winds of Strife

“Listen friend,
You can walk side by side with me,
But don’t try to stop the flow that defines me,
For, the moment you try to bind me,
I’ll flow with quadruple velocity!”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Garden of Fragility

“The relation between binding and consciousness is less clear. Neurocognitive binding surely affects the character of Umweltian consciousness and may be a necessary condition for it. Whether binding provides sufficient conditions for subjectivity in Umweltian or even more basic forms is not evident. In theory, neurocognitive binding and phenomenological binding could come apart - this would be implied, for example, by evidence that bound representations are sometimes formed outside of subjective experience. One possibility is that binding may not be sufficient for phenomenal consciousness unless it also includes affective content that projects meaning onto objects and events, then bound representations that lack affective content would fail to generate conscious experience. It could be, for instance, that bound representations are formed by the synchronous firing of distributed neural systems that specialize in different features of the scene, but that this bound representation must then be made accessible to the wider system for memory, categorization, and affective response if it is to become part of the stream of consciousness. And if this is so, then information integration would not be sufficient to generate subjectivity. Although much of this picture remains opaque, work on binding is providing the first glimpse of how the Umwelt was made.”
― Russell Powell, Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind

“but fiction is more
than a curse:
it is a binding seal
that makes one understand
far more than he ever thought
possible”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Titans

“Do you realize that our humanity creates an irresistible point of connection that cannot be severed despite how much we assail it with our fabricated divisions, our differing opinions, the neighborhoods that we live in, or the color of our skin. And if I dare to touch your humanity despite all of the differences that our worlds might thrust between us, I will live with the knowledge that the souls of two people are powerful enough to breech the differences of a million worlds.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Two steps forward and one step back is still progress, binding us to stronger stuff. People can tell you all day long that you’re strong. What’s more helpful to hear is, use your strength.

That’s the step forward, stabilized.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one way or another, to declare when something is wrong or good; this reflexive spark is generated by a bind. Reasoning is a secondary process, and exists only to reinforce the initial bind.”
― Ştefan Serşeniuc, Gregory Bateson Variations: A View of Complex Ideas: Binds, Double Binds, Schismogenesis, Second- and Third-Order Cybernetics, René Girard, and More