1,848 Quotes About Doors

  • Author Laurence Sterne
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    Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

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  • Author Laurence Sterne
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    I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

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  • Author Laurence Sterne
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    Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

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  • Author Lilith Saintcrow
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    I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night.

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    I open the door wide to reveal the answer. They all look at Sean standing there with his hands in his pocket and the other hand around loaf of bread and it occurs to me all in a rush as they stare at him that Sean looks a little, just a little, like he's courting. I don't have time to explain the truth of it before Tommy laughs and jumps to his feet. "Sean Kendrick, the devil. How are you?

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    You look like a puppy. Like I'm jingling my keys and you're jumping by the door waiting for your walk" "Woof.

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