“Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential.”
“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
“This is Teenage madness. Trapped in a room knowing there's more outside. Trapped listening to a teacher talk about Hemingway as if each sentence and word had mythical importance. Trapped knowing she is in the room with me.”
“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.”
“Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm.“Hang on. What about traps?”He frowned. “Traps?”“Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?”“Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—”“Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.”
“You look about as trapped as a piglet at a baby back ribs cookoff.”