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"I remember Lena's expression when he knocked on the door; and how Alex had looked at her when she finally let him into the storeroom. I remember exactly what he was wearing, too, and the mess of his hair, the sneakers with their blue-tinged laces. His right shoe was untied. He didn't notice. He didn't notice anything but Lena."
"People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all."
"Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed."
"At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour."
"Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors."
"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
"By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities."
"It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance."
"If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in."
"The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments."
"The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open."
"I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism."
"In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news."
"He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her."
"Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, Whale Rider had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them."
"When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside."
"I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin."
"When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window."
"The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."
"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."
