Caught Quotes

“Noah started this chase and I stood before him, waiting to be caught. He could have me, but he refused to move.
Only now did I realize why.
He wanted to be caught. He was waiting for me to chase him.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You're the one who's not supposed to be here." She hoped he didn't hear the squeak in her normally reliable voice. "How am I supposed to snoop if you don't leave when you say you're going to?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heroes Are My Weakness

“They lit her wings with the flames, but she raised to the sky soaring over the clouds until the whole sky caught fire. She flew staring at the destruction with her cold eyes, while the clouds came down as the balls of fire and burnt everyone, who tried to take her wings away into ashes.”
― Akshay Vasu

“And that was when it really came home to me what I was about to do. I was going to rob a bank, committing the additional crime of arson in the process, and if I got caught I'd go to prison.
Well, I thought, go on selling second-hand jalopies for another forty years and maybe somebody'll give you a testimonial and a forty-dollar watch.”
― Charles Williams, The Hot Spot

“Then someone knocks on the door, very clearly, four times. I pull away from Lena quickly.
"What's that?" I say, dragging my forearm across my eyes, trying to get control of myself. Lena tries to pass it off as though she hadn't heard. Her face has gone white, her eyes wide and terrified. When the knocking starts up again, she doesn't move, just stays frozen where she is.
"I thought nobody comes in this way." I cross my arms, watching Lena narrowly. There's a suspicious needling, pricking at some corner of my mind, but I can't quite focus on it.
"They don't. I mean—sometimes—I mean, the delivery guys—"
As she stammers excuses, the door opens, and he pokes his head in—the boy from the day Lena and I jumped the gate at the lab complex, just after we had our evaluations. His eyes land on me and he, too, freezes.
At first I think there must be a mistake. He must have knocked on the wrong door. Lena will yell at him now, tell him to clear off. But then my mind grinds slowly into gear and I realize that no, he has just called Lena's name. This was obviously planned.”
― Lauren Oliver, Hana

“I feel all around me the closing of a trap, and yet I do not think I am the one who is meant to be caught.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???
You were in their trap...”
― Deyth Banger

“Standing, Rider lifted his arms and stretched. His shirt rode up, baring a sliver of his stomach. My gaze dropped and focused in. His lower stomach was unbelievably taut. Defined.
Nice.
Very nice.
Cheeks flushing, I looked away and caught Hector’s knowing gaze. Crap. I needed to be better about checking out guys. Like incognito style.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

“If we do not set the time limits, we can get caught up in the process and never achieve the goal”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A man who fears God is careful about his integrity all the time, while a person who fears punishment of the State is careful only when there is a likelihood of being caught and punished.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“The next time that you're caught telling lies,
Don't get defensive-just apologize”
― Charmaine J Forde

“She looked him full in the face with the most amazed expression. Even now he could not think of it without a shudder. And after a horribly long stare Alison had burst out laughing yes, laughing. She laughed so hard that she choked herself and someone had to beat her on the back. Finally she excused herself from the table. And all through that tormenting evening whenever he looked at her she gave him such a mocking smile.”
― Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye

“I think I have a vague idea what you were driving at," she said. "We all of us somehow caught. We born this way and we don't know why. But we caught anyhow. I born Berenice. You born Frankie. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. Is that what you was trying to say?”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

“I saw a guy faint at the W. M. Keck Observatory, he stepped out from the tour group and said to me "I'm feeling sick" and then his eyes rolled back and his knees gave way! The group caught him on his way to the ground and he got free emergency medical oxygen for half an hour before being evacuated off the summit by his tour group!!! His friends stated that he was considered the healthiest person in the group while he was gasping for breaths of life on the summit of Mauna Kea! Never saw him again.”
― Steven Magee

“We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Keep in mine...that lies can easily catch you in their webs. if you can remain close to the truth, then you will have a beacon to help you out of any incriminating conversation.”
― Rebecca Ross

“Nothing is illegal if you do not get caught.”
― Steven Magee

“Nothing is illegal if you are the President of the United States of America.”
― Steven Magee

“Spotlights appeared by the dozen, like the bullets of heaven’s gun, and anyone caught running through one of them didn't run for long.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“What happened to you, boy? Miss the boat to Heaven, so you stop to visit Hell instead?”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“An eternity caught in a feeling is called love.”
― Laura Chouette

“I don't need to study. I did last night," he whined, resting his head on my shoulder. "Plus. I can just sniff the paper and —"

"If Yuriel were here, I'm sure he'd throw a water bottle at you for attempting to say you can smell the answers to the test," I interrupted, knowing where his comment was leading.

"I can. It's easy," Dimitri reassured me.

"That's cheating."

"It is if you're caught.”
― Avery Song, SSS: Year Two

“I quickly turned around and looked at Ravi but his eyes were quicker as they averted mine. I can’t expect any help from him today. Tomorrow, he will get me flowers. Tomorrow, he will apologize. Tomorrow, he will engulf me in his bear hug that never failed to make me feel warm and safe. But today, he is completely useless. Today, I am alone. Today, he needs to pacify her so tomorrow he can love me again. That is if I can keep myself alive till tomorrow.”
― Arushi Raj, Mrs Sehgal

“After many evacuations that were not needed, Florida residents grew wary and were caught off guard with hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Did you really think you'd escape me?' Casteel asked softly.

Anger was sharper than any blade, far more welcomed than the hopelessness. 'I almost did.'

'Almost means nothing, Princess. You should know that.'

I did. 'I'm not walking back to that keep.'

'Would you prefer that I carry you?' he offered.

'I would prefer never to see your face again.'

'Now all three of us know that's a lie.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Na'laa,' he whispered. 'You should've known better than to run. I will always catch you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Do you know, by the way, why it's called the net?"

Peter shrugs.

"Because we're caught in it," says Kiki.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, QualityLand

“The fear stutterers have is not the fear of speaking, but the fear of others knowing that they stutter.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia