“You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart”

— Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind

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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

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“The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.”

Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

“You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep."
"I only did it once."
"Once was weird enough, thank you.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“So London remains my cage, the door is open, but I cannot leave. Meanwhile, the cage is comfortable enough. And now, as I finish this somewhat ungrateful piece, if I am conscious of a faintly bitter taste in my mouth, it is, I must confess, my own fault. I have just been biting the hand that feeds me, and it tastes of soot.”

Laurie Lee (1914–1997) British writer

An Obstinate Exile, p. 48.
I Can't Stay Long (1975)

“He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage.”

Billy Corgan (1967) American musician, songwriter, producer, and author

“And I shall search my soul,
I shall search my very soul,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion inside me.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

Listen to the Lion
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)

“My heart shatters. My world shatters.

you will lose what you value most.

It wasn't my life or even Dimitri's life.

what you value most

It was his soul.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Variant: You will lose what you value most...

It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life.

What you value most.

It had been his soul.
Source: Spirit Bound

“A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“There is no god, and the cage wasn't 30 feet.”

Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist

Personal
Source: Open letter to Teddy Hart posted on livejournal http://cmpunk.livejournal.com/9301.html. November 12th, 2003.

“You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart”

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