{"quotes":[{"text":"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it.","author":"Aspen Matis","tags":["helplessness","independence","trapped"],"id":2548,"author_id":"Aspen+Matis"},{"text":"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.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["culture","invisible-monsters","trap","trapped","traps"],"id":13065,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite another, and though once I thought I had left that ravine forever on an April afternoon long ago, now I am not so sure. Now the searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air.","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["beginning","donna-tartt","haunted","memory","prologue","the-secret-history","trapped"],"id":13098,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"},{"text":"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["cell-phone","cell-phones","cellular","digital","digital-age","lifeless","lives","mobile","mobile-phone","mobile-phones","planet","smartphone","soul","souls","trap","trapped","wise","wise-words","world"],"id":20122,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I'm trapped behind a wall of fear and fear itself.","author":"Gabriella Jording","tags":["anxiety","conscience","doubt","fear","scared","trapped","wall"],"id":20201,"author_id":"Gabriella+Jording"},{"text":"Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["art","artificial","camera","celluloid","collapse","disturing","enigma","fake","family","film","flash","happy","instamatic","kodachrome","kodak","kodak-moment","lens","lie","memory","mystery","nikon","nostalgia","photo","photography","sad","scary","see-through","trapped","wall","zoom"],"id":23400,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["hell","my-mind","reverie","stuck","trapped"],"id":31993,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.","author":"Holly Black","tags":["fairy-tales","hopeless","loneliness","sad","trapped"],"id":33218,"author_id":"Holly+Black"},{"text":"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.","author":"James A. Baldwin","tags":["people","trapped","them "],"id":34322,"author_id":"James+A.+Baldwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}