"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" Quotes
A man's wrongful imprisonment for the murder of his wife leads to an unlikely friendship and a daring escape plan.
fiction | 181 pages | Published in 1982
Quotes
Fear can hold you a prisoner. Hope can set you free.
It's funny, on the outside I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.
Redemption is something you have to fight for.
Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of s*** and came out clean on the other side.
Hope springs eternal.
The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.
Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure and time.
