Doors Quotes - Page 35

• The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Closets, Left

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.33, City Lights Publishers

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• I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Waiting, Done

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.25, Pantheon

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• Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

  Dean Koontz

  Names, Ravens, Sorrow

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• In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Coins, Body

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.635, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sorry about Bender," Lula said, letting the Trans Am idle at the curb. "Maybe we could tell Vinnie he died. We could say we were all set to bring Bender in, and he died. Bang. Dead as a doorknob." "Better yet, why don't we just go back and kill him," I said. I opened the door to leave, caught my toe in the floor mat, and fell out of the car, face first. I rolled onto my back and stared up at the stars. "I'm fine," I said to Lula. "Maybe I'll sleep here tonight.

  Janet Evanovich

  Stars, Sorry, Sleep

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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• And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Wall, Boys, Different

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• Have you ever heard of feng shui? (Randy) Yeah. It’s the ‘put the mirror on your door and sleep in the right direction’ bullshit. (Steele)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sleep, Mirrors, Bullshit

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Garden, Light

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

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• All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,” I said heatedly. The beetle’s lips twisted enough to show fang. “Doesn’t everyone?” Radu hustled me out the door before I could find out if the vamp’s plump little carcass would fit into his overstuffed desk.

  Karen Chance

  Party, Fey, Want

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.102, Penguin

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• Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Numbers, Two

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• My father looked like he was having a stroke— not that Mel seemed to notice because he just kept talking. “Patrick needs a ride. No car, you know, and so I figured, hey, I can pick up some gas money.” He laughed. No one else did, and now Patrick looked like he was trying to push himself inside the door and hide.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Father, Talking, Car

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• Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security. You're always supposed to have a towel. I read about it in a guide for hitchhiking through the galaxy.

  Christopher Moore

  Weed, Smoking, Calling

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• Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Waiting, Care, Exit

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.179, A&C Black

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• Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dream, Sight, Silence

  Richard Brautigan, “Hinged To Forgetfulness Like A Door”

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• Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

  Gerry Spence

  Father, Next, Cleanliness

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Real, Thinking

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all true. He was a flat-out killer. With a metal clank, a door opened at the other end of the gym, and the sound of a newborn's cries echoed up into the high ceiling. The warrior stopped in midpunch and wheeled around as a lovely female carrying young in a pink blanket came over to him. His face softened, positively melted.

  J.R. Ward

  Warrior, Lovely, Sound

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• But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Rain, Light, Farewell To Arms

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• He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.

  Melissa Marr

  Rage, Slam, Left

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• Lucern felt himself "She called my erections wonderful?" Entienne just gaped, then raised a fist to knock on his brother's forehead as if it were a door "Hello! Earth calling Luc! She thinks it's rigor mortis.

  Lynsay Sands

  Brother, Thinking, Rigor Mortis

  Lynsay Sands (2011). “The Vampire eBook Collection”, p.408, Hachette UK

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• Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door—a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. “Carter after you.” “Um, how do I—” “How do you think?” Great another mystery. I was about to suggest we ram Amos’s head against it and see if that worked.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Thinking, Squares

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Could I just use the loo?” I asked the nice officer. “No.” She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Use, Toilets

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• A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Car, Skins, Yards

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• At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

  Orson Scott Card

  Glowing, World, Emeralds

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.61, Macmillan

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• There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

  Djuna Barnes

  Honesty, Liars, Evil

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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