Bars Quote by Patricia Briggs

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

— Sonya Hartnett

“He surveyed the edifice from the outside, and admired it greatly; he looked in at the windows, and received an impression of proportions equally…

— Henry James

She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.

— Julian Critchley

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.

— Alice Munro

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

— Neil Gaiman

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

— Mavis Gallant

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

— John Green

I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.

— Nan Kempner

I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ...…

— Tim Gunn

“My closet door wouldn't close. I pushed. I leaned on it. I eventually realized that my bathrobe sleeve was blocking the latch. When I…

— Melissa Jensen

She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit…

— Cassandra Clare