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Quotes About Door

Why insult the door's purpose by locking it? is a favorite kender expression.
~ Margaret Weis
Tas pulled himself up over the porch railing with the skill of a burglar. The kender slipped over to the door and peered up and down the bridge-walk. Seeing no one on it, he motioned to the others. Then he studied the lock and smiled to himself in satisfaction. The kender slid something out of one of his pouches. Within seconds, the door of Tika's house swung open. "Come in," he said, playing host.
~ Margaret Weis
Blasted doorknob of a kender
~ Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
The furtive closing of a door is a sound the wind can make a dozen times in an hour. A flow of damp air from the lake can make any house feel empty. Such currents pull one's dreams after them, and one's own dread is always mirrored upon the dread that inheres in things.
~ Marilynne Robinson
At his door she now presented herself, and, having explained to his wife that most urgent business required her to go at once to Barchester, begged that Farmer Subsoil would take her thither in his tax-cart. The farmer did not reject her plan, and, as soon as Prince could be got into his collar, they started on their journey.
~ Anthony Trollope
after Hal had refused to open the Pod Bay door.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
now is rather a questionable one. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He turned down the passageway to their little parlor, and sent the door swinging open with a crash. Losing my temper will not help, he said, and gave the door a vicious kick.
~ Shirley Jackson
There will always be a door to the light.
~ Shiro Amano
I did have to resist the urge to open his bedroom door and check that he was all right. Old habits of motherhood die hard.
~ Simon Brett
Sei que hei-de fazer um movimento. A porta abrir-se-á e poderei ver o que está para além dela. É o futuro. A porta do futuro vai abrir-se. Lentamente. Implacavelmente. Estou no limiar. Existe somente uma porta e o que me espia por trás. Tenho medo. E não posso chamar ninguém por socorro. Tenho medo.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
~ Simone Weil
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
~ Simone Weil
My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tithing is an open door to wealth.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
California, preaching on the burning shore California, I'll be knocking on the golden door Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light Rising up to paradise, I know I'm going to shine
~ John Perry Barlow
It's too late. It's too late. Through the open door of the bathroom I see a watersoaked bag on the floor.
~ John Rechy
There was a boyishness about Mr. Clemens sometimes that found different modes of expression. Once, when the long corridor of the second floor of the hotel presented a temptingly empty avenue, he hopped, skipped, and ran, and then gave a delicious suggestion of a cake-walk. As soon as a door opened, however, he stopped and assumed a supernaturally grave aspect.
~ Elizabeth Wallace
His new stepsister, Darcy, stood in the door that went down to the second floor. Her hair was black and knotted and stringy, and, no surprise, she was wearing one of her dozens of princess dresses. This one had been pink and spangled at one point. Now it looked like something a zombie would wear to a fancy dress party.
~ Ellen Datlow
If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my door creaked open. Billy's expression turned to surprise. "Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested. "You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it." "It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Call school," I called to her at the door. "Tell them I'm lovesick." -Raven
~ Ellen Schreiber
i was in love with the sound of the slamming door, it sounded the way i felt, like damn you to hell! and i hate what you're doing to me! and Life sucks.
~ Ellen Wittlinger
They were outside. It was oddly quiet, with just a muffled roar from behind the closed door, as if the ocean were contained on that side.
~ Eloisa James