Kept Quotes

“I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“During COVID, we've all been kept out of things. Gorman's poem eloquently lists many of the things we've been kept out of. Then she wrote -

"Kept out of,
kept in,
kept from,
kept behind,
kept below,
kept down.
Kept without life.

Some were asked to walk a fraction of our exclusion for a year and it almost destroyed all they thought they were.

Yet here we are. Still Walking. Still kept.

To be kept to the edges of existence is the inheritance of the marginalized.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“You think what I said to you was hurtful? You should hear the things I kept to myself.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Words spoken today that are not needed now must be kept till they will be needed”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The promise in far too many promises is the promise that it won’t be kept.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Making the assumption that I am in the presence of criminals has always kept me safe when interacting with police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“The fear that my child would be raised in a broken home is what kept me in a dysfunctional relationship for years.”
― Steven Magee

“I had to make a large number of changes to clear Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) up, it took years to figure it out. I kept on making change after change until one day I realized that EHS was no longer present.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“Sometimes some questions... shouldn't been answered... sometimes some stuff should be kept private... sometimes some people should just exist in specific places...”
― Deyth Banger, The Life of One Kid 1

“I can't let you walk away.
Your sadness is suffocating me.
I can't breathe.
The pain laced within his tone made me weak.”
― A.C. Bextor, Kept

“I kept an open mind to the possibility that the doctors were just as corrupt as the corporate controlled medical system.”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes forever is kept in a heartbeat of a second.”
― Laura Chouette

“Summit Lag occurs when a summit worker is kept in a permanent state of mal-acclimatization.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Prisoners are often kept permanently indoors.”
― Steven Magee

“There is a difference, Emilia, between being kept - like me - and being owned - like a wife. The difference is freedom. I do what I want and I go where I want, as long as I make myself available otherwise.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name