“The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.”
“A telephone cord used to make an excellent leash on people. Now metal chains work better.”
“The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.”
“J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher a clocher; des guirlandes de fenetre a fenetre; des chaines d'or d'etoile a etoile, et je danse.”
“We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.”
“The time we waste is equal to the distance between ourselves and the iron rod.”