Feeling Trapped Quotes

“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now. He remembered what Maureen had told him once that it was the system that was at fault. But he could not even blame the system, because the system was not anything, it was only a kind of accumulation of everybody, and you could not blame everybody, not unless you wanted the blame to become diluted into a meaningless term, a just nothing. Besides, this system here in this country was the best system the world had ever produced, wasnt it? This system was by far and above the best system anywhere else in the world today. He felt if he did not find somebody to blame pretty soon he would hate everybody.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“Penned creatures suffer, but the more so when they imagine a pen what ain’t there”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele

“Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape.”
― Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love