Captured Quotes

“Key the mind, and set the soul free.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times.
You have captured my heart. It is yours.
I am at your mercy now”
― Kamand Kojouri

“She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.”
― Geoffrey O'Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears

“Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight

“Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“What am I going to do with you?” he asked huskily.
“I don’t know, but I suspect you’ll think of something.”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“I’ll teach you to dance.”
She smiled. “Right here?”
“Absolutely.”
“Are you going to sing for me as well?”
He sighed. “Have you ever heard a dog howl at the moon?”
“That bad, is it?”
“I’m probably insulting the dog.”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“And so here i was, my hands tied so tight behind my back i was losing feeling in them and a fresh wound on my collarbone where a knife had just barely missed my neck. Funny how being successful felt exactly the same as getting captured.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“A wandering knight
wambling in an endless road

Thinking to himself

Where the others are?
Taking care of what?

Who am I?
but a fading footprint

on a dark empty land
under a starless sky

seized by roaring shadows
and delusive hopes”
― Rixa White

“Tell me,” Cole coaxed again, “how would you handle me?”
“Well,” she began hesitantly, her eyes locked on his, “I suppose I’d begin by telling you what a fine figure of a man you are. How handsome—”
“Forget about my pretty face,” he interrupted.”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“But you kissed me!”
He wished she’d quit reminding him of that. It just made him want to do it all over again. “Devon, I give you my word, all I intend to do now is sleep.”
She studied him through narrowed eyes. “How do I know that once we’re in bed you won’t… won’t…”
“Turn into a wild, rutting beast who’s unable to control himself?” he supplied.
“Exactly,” she breathed, looking supremely relieved that he’d said it and not she.
“That’s very flattering, but I can assure you that you’re quite safe.” He waited until he saw her relax to add casually, “That only happens when the moon is full.”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“Do you like that, Devon? Do you like the way I touch you?”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“She pulled away, almost out of breath, and gazed up into his eyes. They were dark with passion and fire, fit within by a golden glow that sent her pulses racing.
“What was that for?” he asked huskily.
“Do I need a reason?”
“Never.”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“Cole smiled. “Love you,” he whispered softly. “I’ll be back soon to show you how much.”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“Oh, Cole,” she said, “the jewelry box is lovely—”
“It’s not for jewelry.”
She gazed up at him, surprised by his somber
tone. “Then what—”
“It’s a memory box, Devon. Something in which to store all those memories you collect, so you’ll never lose a single one.” He paused, looking both tender and serious at once. “Unlike the wedding gift you gave me, this one comes with strings attached. If you accept it, I expect the next fifty years of your life in return to help fill it up.”
Devon bit her lip to hide a wayward, trembling smile. “Only the next fifty?”
He shrugged. “We can negotiate after that.”
She nodded, swallowing past the tight knot in her throat. “That sounds like a pretty fair deal to me.”
― Victoria Lynne, Captured

“I stare mesmerized at the photo
that you have sent,
pushing your child on the swing...
a precious moment captured
and I am reminded
of the distance separating us
and how it seems like yesterday
when I was swinging you, dear son”
― Vijaya Gowrisankar

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted, standardized, and obedient worker-citizen consumers that are programmed to feed the system that holds them captured, exploited, and enslaved. Silently and collectively, they are sawing the branch of reason on which we are all sitting.”
― Rajinder Jhol, Shine

“Your exuberance, passion,
mesmerizing voice,
animated actions,
and eyes full of dreams
captured my attention
so completely,
that I didn't feel
the bitter taste of coffee”
― Vijaya Gowrisankar

“Probably best, he thought. If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Still. . . if her boys were gone . . .”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Well this sucks hairy goat balls”
― Rosa Lee

“Quando ebbe origine l'Area X, le informazioni erano vaghe e confuse, ed è tuttora vero che al mondo pochi sono al corrente della sua esistenza. Il governo, nella sua versione dei fatti, pose l'accento su una catastrofe ecologica circoscritta derivante dalla sperimentazione in campo militare. Come la proverbiale rana nella pentola, che si accorge che l'acqua sta bollendo quando ormai è troppo tardi, la notizia filtrò nel corso di diversi mesi, entrando nella coscienza delle persone un pò alla volta, come parte della quotidiana overdose di chiasso mediatico sulla crescente devastazione ambientale. Nel giro di un paio d'anni diventò materia per i teorici del complotto e altri personaggi di nicchia. Quando mi arruolai e mi venne rilasciato il nullaosta di sicurezza per apprendere come fossero realmente andate le cose, l'idea di un'<> persisteva nella testa di molte persone come una fiaba oscura, un'idea su cui non volevano riflettere troppo. Ammesso che ci riflettessero. Avevano altri problemi.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“She can be seen as a falling star that has been captured by the sky and put in its rightful place.”
― Cristiane Serruya, Not A Book

“The beauty is the remote power towards sex; no one can stay without its influence, and captured by it.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“What happened to you, boy? Miss the boat to Heaven, so you stop to visit Hell instead?”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“Just before she was allowed to go to Buck, Blanche was photographed at least three times by Herb Schwartz of the Des Moines Register. The location was about one quarter of a mile from where Buck and Blanche were apprehended. Blanche is being held by Sheriff Loren Forbes in all three shots. In two of the shots she is standing quietly, looking toward Buck, who is lying on the ground nearby with a group of armed men stooping over him. In the third shot, which has been widely published, Blanche is struggling with Forbes and looking directly at the camera, screaming dramatically. In his notes, Schwartz commented that Blanche, in her semiblind state, saw him raising his camera and apparently thought it was a gun and that he was about to shoot Buck. Blanche is screaming at Schwartz.”
― John Neal Phillips, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

“I am a professional whistleblower!”
― Steven Magee

“Shawl of esophagus, eyeball earrings, not to be monotonous, with fingernail blings. "You're not getting out of here. You're not getting out."
It sings.”
― Michelesthird

“The FAA is your typical ‘Captured’ government agency.”
― Steven Magee