{"quotes":[{"text":"Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["boundaries","boundary","captive","christian","christianity","defense","defense-mechanisms","defensive","destroy","destruction","fail","failure","fortress","fortresses","god","imprisoned","jesus","jesus-christ","protect","protection","rubble","self-protection"],"id":9068,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["captive","free","freedom","prisoner","trapped"],"id":58572,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"},{"text":"If you wanted to kill me, why haven't you smothered me in my sleep?' 'No sport in that.' She gestured towards the ceiling. 'Can I expect to be strung up on that bar and gutted like a deer?' He looked up at the bar and frowned. 'Too much sport. Lots of heave-hoeing. Big mess to clean up after. Instead, why don't you just drink the poison-laced whiskey?' He extended the glass toward her again and when she didn't move he said, 'No? Okay then.' He shot the drink. She might not want the edge taken off but he sure as hell did.","author":"Sandra Brown","tags":["captive","humor","kidnap","murder"],"id":75900,"author_id":"Sandra+Brown"},{"text":"By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.","author":"Angelus Silesius","tags":["bound","captive","found","free","lost","will"],"id":77081,"author_id":"Angelus+Silesius"},{"text":"Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bound","captive","collar","dream","dreamer","dreams","free","freedom","goal","goal-driven","goal-oriented","idea","ideas","imprisoned","leash","liberate","passion","passionate","possibilities","possible","restrain","restrained","restraint","restrictions","unleash","vision","visionary","visionless"],"id":107940,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blessing","break","breaking","broken","captive","change","curse","disruption","disruptive","free","freedom","gift","gifts","god","greatest","growth","liberation","love"],"id":125224,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.'If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'dbeen kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... But all that was over now.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["betrayed","captive","decieved","defeat","defeated","doom","doomed","dreaming","expectations","fate","great-expectations","greed","happiness","longing","perfection","poisened","put-downs","striving","towmorrow","used","vow","vows","wanting","wants","years","years-of-struggle"],"id":145759,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bondage","captive","fear","fearful","free","freedom","frightened","god","incarcerated","incarceration","liberation","prison","prisoner","walls","warden"],"id":184617,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.","author":"Danielle Bernock","tags":["captive","childhood-trauma","healing-the-emotional-self","inner-healing","inner-self","invalidation","lies","love-heals","pain","personal-development","scream","silenced","silent-pain","trauma"],"id":194280,"author_id":"Danielle+Bernock"},{"text":"Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.","author":"Stephen M. Irwin","tags":["anger","bombs","captive","captured","child","courage","determination","fear","hostage-situation","little-girl","news-program","parents"],"id":210247,"author_id":"Stephen+M.+Irwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}