Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I hate zoos.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

Let me go, let me go.

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner