Quotes about door
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“Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-’80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word:.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Way, Girl

“You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: Duchess By Night

Death, Personality

“I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you."

"I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

People, Smile, Dogs

“With that, he pushed his way out… and as the door eased shut, she realizedcould indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase. Actions did mean more than words.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Way

“Two U. S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“Because that's what heaven is… it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.”

Justin Cronin book The Twelve

Source: The Twelve

Love, Housing

“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat (1985)

Question

“I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon)
'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Color

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

"Tentative (First Model)" Definitions of Poetry" in Complete Poems (1950)

“it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.”

Margaret Atwood book Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-"
"Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Dance

“In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Life, Dreams, Game

“Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Food, Guy

“Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.
-Songs of Sapphique”

Catherine Fisher book Incarceron

Source: Incarceron

Thinking, Tree

“After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“When God closes one door, He slams another in your face”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: The Other Side of the Story

God

“This is war,' I yelled through the door.
Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.”

Janet Evanovich Two for the Dough

Source: Two for the Dough

War

“your lives be as full and happy as ours, and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Happiness, Travel, Season

“God enters by a private door into every individual.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

God

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

Love, Making love, Reading

“Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?”
“Passwords are for sissies,” Warren’s muffled voice responded.
“Works for me,” Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

“Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Happiness

“Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

Home

“Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter.

Dimitri Belikov had arrived.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Peace, Spring

“Who’s there?”
“The scratcher of your itch,” he said.
She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Instant Attraction

“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors. I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free, and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. XII).
Variant: I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Girl, Change

“Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Past, Night

“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Way

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Emma Lazarus The New Colossus

The New Colossus (1883)

“He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his head like a javelin.
On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

--Charlie Gordan”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

“This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”

Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion

Source: The Curse of Chalion

God

“The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was carrying a severed vampire head. The T-shirt has a smiley face on it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Gunmetal Magic

“And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

World, Reality, Housing

“So how do you know him? (Shahara)
I knocked on his door one day and said, ‘Hi, I’m here to rob you. Hope you don’t mind. Oh, and by the way, will you be my friend?’ (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

Hope, Way

“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

God

“Shall I show you the door… or would you rather go out through the wall?" - Maris”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Cloak & Silence

“Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Jace threw himself against the door. It didn't budge. He cursed. "My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health."
-Jace to Clary, pg.284-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace
'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary
Source: City of Bones

Health

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

Source: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

Truth

“my sword reappeared in my pocket.
yeah, great timing. now i could attack the walls all i wanted. my cell had no bar, no window, not even a door”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Time