Louise Penny Quotes

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

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

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

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.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

You'll never know how sweet freedom can be unless you've lost it for eight and a half years.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

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