Is that it?”“No. That’s a wall.”“It could be disguised.”“You’re not very good at looking for things, are you?”“I’m good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.
— Derek LandyPride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.
— Heather BixlerPlease, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.
— Cinda Williams ChimaPay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!
— Ana Claudia AntunesI am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.Run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please.
— Charlotte ErikssonI told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.
— Kimberly NovoselMen build too many walls and not enough bridges.
— Joseph Fort NewtonSometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.
— Shannon L. AlderPrayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.
— Ellen J. BarrierObstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?
— Israelmore Ayivor