“ You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're fr… Sanhita Baruah
“ I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the… Criss Jami
“ Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains. Aisha Mirza
“ Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles. Bryant McGill
“ The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—… Laura Kreitzer
“ I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off. Jasmine Warga
“ I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while we… J.D. Stroube