"Door: Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

"He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist."
— Truman Capote (The Complete Stories of Truman Capote)

"I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust."
— Holly Lisle (The Silver Door)

"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 (White Oleander)

"Love is the cage and the cage is closed and the door is locked and nobody’s home."
— Ashraf Siddiqui

"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
— Pablo Picasso