Closet Quotes

430 Closet quotes by 357 unique authors

Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad… — Jack Kerouac
You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.… — Joan Didion
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her closet, that everything… — Jackie Morse Kessler
I think that sometimes the whole larger-than-life gay thing is just another kind of closet. It's easier to be different if you're very different, if… — Lili Wilkinson
I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate… — J D Salinger
I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual… — Anne Sexton
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped… — Beverly Cleary
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am… — Charles Bukowski
She had time to make room for him in her closet. The cat had time to get used to him. They had all the time… — Jill Shalvis
The demon's eyes flicked to mine, his smile widening. "This is Nicholas Gregory Sparagmos's room," he said, and my breath caught. "Delightful, just delightful! What… — Kim Harrison
Mercy: “Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet.” Ben: “You killed someone?” Ben asked with interest — Patricia Briggs
Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and… — Anthony Venn-Brown
If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's… — Anthony Venn-Brown
Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half… — Tyler Perry
His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living,… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again. — Kim Harrison
This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug… — Daniel Handler
Then maybe it's time to change that." Della sat back in her chair. "Change what?" Kylie asked. "Come out of the closet. You know, like...'I'm… — C.C. Hunter
I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags… — Karen Marie Moning
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her… — John Steinbeck
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet,… — Neil Gaiman
I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood… — Steven Millhauser
Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet,… — Marisha Pessl

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