“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”

“ All of a sudden, inviting Jeremy up to my room seemed like a terrible idea. I wanted him too much. My desire for him was like a thing separate from me, a wild animal with a mind of its own, attacking the bars of the cage I kept it in, looking for a weak spot." from Struck”

“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”

“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”

“Are we animals because we're caged, or caged because we're animals? I think it's both.”