{"quotes":[{"text":"Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world… Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["cabin-fever","claustrophobia","horror"],"id":114015,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["art","art-world","attraction","aversion","avoid","avoided","childhood","childhood-trauma","claustrophobia","debilitating","economical","faculty","fortune","frustrated","frustration","haunted","high-ceilings","home","house","housing","incident","life","manifest","manifested","mild","museum","museums","open-spaces","overcome","sports","subtle","subtle-ways","suspect","suspected","vestige","victorian-home","whole-life","wide-open-spaces"],"id":166062,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.","author":"Peter Watts","tags":["claustrophobia","universe"],"id":266278,"author_id":"Peter+Watts"},{"text":"Darkness is a strange thing — it is both infinite and confining; it holds you tight in its grasp, but it holds you suspended in a void. Silence operates in a similar way. Slowly the two combine to become a threat.('Come Into My Parlour').","author":"Reggie Oliver","tags":["claustrophobia","darkness","silence"],"id":287122,"author_id":"Reggie+Oliver"},{"text":"I have to get off this elevator.I can't ride with him, Can't look at him, Can't be this close to him. Can't, Can't, can't.","author":"Elana Johnson","tags":["claustrophobia","elevated","in-verse","proximity","ya","young-adult"],"id":303484,"author_id":"Elana+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}