Trap Quotes

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

“He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs…
“Okay,” Frank relented. “Sure.” He frowned at his fingers, trying to pull them out of the trap. “Uh, how do you—”
Leo chuckled. “Man, you’ve never seen those before? There’s a simple trick to getting out.”
Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh.
Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs.
“Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“And I know I’ve lost.
Everything is lost.
Everything is over.
“As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.”
“Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed.
I hold her tightly to me.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.”
We’ve run right into a trap.
We’ve run right off the end of the world.
“Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”
― Anthony Liccione

“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Belief traps or frees us.”
― Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

“It was a trap. It was so obviously a trap.

Darquesse smiled.”
― Derek Landy, The Dying of the Light

“How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?”
― Ann Marie Aguilar

“But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“The trap had a ghastly perfection”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Clear out your thoughts, don't believe everything you think,it might be a trap within”
― Napz Cherub Pellazo

“I feel the searing, burning of my hands,
caught alight by the red-tipped fire.
Silent I am, mesmerised by the flames
that have now caught me in their trap.

Fire is bad.
Fire takes people away.

Claire’s words are accurate.
I am in a burning dream world.
One that I may never leave.
My hands and arms are now alight
and my eyes are stinging with tears.”
― Susan L. Marshall, All the Hope We Carry

“It never changes, he says. The other group he brought here, it ended this same way.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the
stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“It never changes, he says. The other group he brought here, it ended this same way.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Your voice is trapped inside this machine. It's not broken, it's just been sealed off now that it no longer has a purpose.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.

And I was not a mouse.

I was a wolf.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The Weaver's dress rustled as she crept closer in the gloom. 'Who did you bring, little wolf? What did you bring to me?'

Ianthe and her two guards stepped over the threshold. Then another step. Past the open door. They didn't see me in the shadows behind it.

'Dinner,' I said to the Weaver, whirling around the door- to its outside face. And let go of the handle.

Just as the door slammed shut hard enough to rattle the cottage, I saw the ball of faelight that Ianthe lifted to illuminate the room.

Saw the horrible face of the Weaver, that mouth of stumped teeth opening wide with delight and unholy hunger. A death-god of old- starved for life. With a beautiful priestess before her.

I was already hurtling for the trees when the guards and Ianthe began screaming.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“The trouble was, after such extended and demonstrable drug use, it’s impossible to be happy just being yourself; instead you need something else
to feel okay. The whole cycle is a trap that not only creates potholes in your brain, but also takes away control of your most valuable possession: yourself.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I prefer the sign NO ENTRY to the one that says NO EXIT.”
― Stanilaus Lec

“It is said that the Duke Leto blinded himself to the perils of Arrakis, that he walked heedlessly into the pit. Would it not be more likely to suggest he had lived so long in the presence of extreme danger he misjudged a change in its intensity? Or is it possible he deliberately sacrificed himself that his son might find a better life? All evidence indicates the Duke was a man not easily hoodwinked.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“She had fashioned herself into an escape artist, a magician whose only trick was vanishing. Permanence was dangerous. It had always felt like a trap.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“The free cheese in a mousetrap is only for the mouse.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“You are not bait. You are a trap.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“I had no way of communicating the thought. I looked around for my pad and pen, but there was nothing. I regretted having left them at home, but he'd taken them from my pocket as we were leaving. "You won't be needing these," he'd said. "I'll have it fixed in no time.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“You'll forget you ever had a voice," he continued. "You may find it annoying at first, until you get used to it. You'll move your lips as you just did, go looking for a typewriter, a notepad. But soon enough you'll see how pointless it is. You have no need to talk, no need to utter a single word. There's nothing to worry about, nothing to fear. Then, at last, you'll be all mine.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“What looks like a path to enlightenment is really a trap.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life