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 Landy

Pride 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 Bixler

Please, 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 Chima

Pay 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 Antunes

I 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 Eriksson

I 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 Novosel

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

— Joseph Fort Newton

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

— Shannon L. Alder

Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.

— Ellen J. Barrier

Obstacles 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