Kidnapping Quotes

Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He’d better not be falling for her. Sure she’s cute, but I can’t think about that.

~ Jenna-Lynne Duncan

His lips brushed over hers. She let out a sigh of relief and joy and pleasure. He pulled her tighter against him, taking her mouth with his own. She melted into him and the kiss, heart pounding, desire sparking along her nerve endings like a string of lit dynamite.

~ B.j. Daniels

Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else.

~ Clara Kensie

Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.

~ Clara Kensie

Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.And now Dad wants me to be the ambassador of hope for his foundation. How can I be the ambassador of hope, when hope doesn't change anything? When unrealized hopes only bring pain and despair?

~ Clara Kensie

Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.

~ Clara Kensie

My father is using me as a message of hope. My sister is using me as a message of fear.I don't want to be used by anybody.

~ Clara Kensie

My friend Bailey is looking at me with tears in her eyes and a smile of pure joy. She sees me, the real me, not the broken little bird that my mother sees, or the Ambassador of Hope that my father sees, or the girl who was stupid enough to walk off with a stranger and ruin everyone's lives that my sister sees. Bailey sees me as I want to be: a normal, non-newsworthy, non-broken, non-victimized sixteen-year-old girl.

~ Clara Kensie

My Keeper's house. Right there. Brown shingles, dark red shutters, yellow-and-black police tape wrapped around the massive tree trunks. The attic window looks out over the yard and the world narrows until that attic window is the only thing I can see.

~ Clara Kensie

So many cameras are on me. This press conference is going to be on every news channel and posted on the internet. Thousands, maybe millions of people will see me. And they will all be thinking: Victim. Victim. Victim.

~ Clara Kensie

I can't believe he stabbed the guy. Eight years old. I'm the most irresponsible kidnapper ever.

~ Joey Comeau

At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

~ Zoe Cruz

I’ll rid the world of each one of you,” he whispered. “Every single one…

~ Zoe Cruz

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

~ Zoe Cruz

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you wanted to kidnap someone, what would you use? she asked Amit. They were lying in bed, with the lights off. To knock them unconscious. So that you could drag them into the back of your van.Chloroform, I guess.Really? She brightened. It made her happy that the person she was marrying would commit crimes in the same way as she would.

~ Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

It was a dark story.

~ Joseph Conrad

Do it double, because some can't do it at all.

~ Clara Kensie

Something contracts in my chest. The air shifts, grows heavy and dense as mud. Alexa twists her hair around her finger and whispers, Didn't you even try to escape, Charlotte?

~ Clara Kensie

I say to my sister, I thought you were doing the things in our Dream Book. I was sure of it. Why would I do that stuff without you? Because you could.Well, you were wrong.

~ Clara Kensie

Each second of my four years, two months, and seven days in the attic dragged on forever, and nothing ever changed. But outside the attic, everything changed, and so violently fast. Destruction and devastation for all of us, whether we were in the attic or out.

~ Clara Kensie

The only thing that gave me comfort in the attic was thinking about my family. Now I'm home, but it's not the home I imagined. Not the family I imagined. I'd convinced myself that they'd continued on with their happy, carefree lives without me, that they were doing it double, because I couldn't do it at all. I was wrong.

~ Clara Kensie

My sister has never not told me something before. We used to share every secret, every thought. While I was in the attic, it felt like we were forever far away. Now I'm with her again. We're so close that we're touching, but there's still a distance between us.

~ Clara Kensie

Alexa's face whitens. The coil of hair loosens itself from her finger. You did it for me. You never fought back. Because you thought you were keeping me safe.I pull up my gaze to meet hers. Yeah.I-- It's a strangled, high-pitched sound, laced with shock and grief. Then she bites her lips shut. Her chin trembles, just once, before she turns away.

~ Clara Kensie

My Keeper took everything from me: my home, my family, my voice. He made me powerless. But I'm home now. It may be split in two, but I have it back. My family may be broken, but I have it back. I have my voice back. I am not powerless anymore.

~ Clara Kensie

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

~ Lucy Christopher

That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.

~ Natascha Kampusch

As Sloan approached the door, Paul Lyons lifted his eyes to watch her leave. He found himself wondering why after all these years they couldn’t manage to get along for a lousy twenty minutes. Perhaps it was the result of their inability to compromise—to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Or maybe they’d both simply lost the ability to trust another human being and believe anything good could come of this world.

~ Kaylin Mcfarren

Every woman wants a cowboy.

~ B.j. Daniels

There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... If you're reading this, I'm already dead.

~ Elizabeth Heiter

Rachel slid inside her silver Kia and slammed the car door, grateful that the museum’s security guard was now watching from a distance. If he hadn’t been, she might have acted on a homicidal impulse and run Chase over, the manipulative jerk. In fact, it made her feel better just to imagine it.

~ Kaylin Mcfarren

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.

~ Jenna-Lynne Duncan

She doesn’t even have shoes on” He was trying to reconcile something in his head while talking to Luke. “In all the time you spent in that shack, you forgot to pack her shoes?” Luke asked rhetorically, shaking his head in both wonder and disappointment. “Look, we’re in the boonies. I am sure shoes are optional, as are a full set of teeth.

~ Jenna-Lynne Duncan

We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Saji has had things done to people who crossed him or whom he has perceived as crossing him. Ugly things. These guys we're meeting? They think they're tough. They run book, own strip clubs, dabble in petty theft and probably sell dope for all I know and they're comfortable in that world, thinking they own it. That arrogance? That feeling that they can just push people around and do anything they want? It has left them with one foot in the grave and they don't even know it.

~ Michael Prelee

I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.

~ Tal Mcthenia

We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

~ Michael Prelee

These guys we're meeting? They're dead. Saji has had things done to people who crossed him or whom he has perceived as crossing him. Ugly things. These guys we're meeting? They think they're tough. They run book, own strip clubs, dabble in petty theft and probably sell dope for all I know and they're comfortable in that world, thinking they own it. That arrogance? That feeling that they can just push people around and do anything they want? It has left them with one foot in the grave and they don't even know it.

~ Michael Prelee

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

~ Wodke Hawkinson

Consider bonsaiThere but for constricting bowlWould be a giant.

~ Dianne Bates