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“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”

Firsts Past Doors Building Broken Proud Window Empty Plates Renewal New Day Gleam Tiles Each New Day

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?”

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Hard Happens Political Doors Hard Work Broken Smooth Sensitivity Breakthrough Bruised New Places Acumen

Book:The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

Source: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

“No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.”

Men Home House Process Cases Doors Broken Safety Criminals Public Safety

Book:The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books

Source: The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books

“A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.”

Seems Action Nations Waiting Walks Rooms Path Taken Doors Ready Broken Tomorrow Lifts Thick Fog Breeze Mist Right Path

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.”

“I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.”

“That was close,"he said, helping himself to coffee. Yeah, you almost opened the door to Morelli." I wasn't talking about Morelli. I was talking about us." That too," I said. Ranger sliced a bagel and looked for the toaster. It's broken,"I told him. He truned the boiler on and slid the bagel into the oven. That's surprisingly domestic for a man of mystery," I said to him. He looked at me over the rim of his coffee mug. "I like things hot.”

Men Said Helping Talking Doors Mystery Broken Hot Yeah Coffee Rangers Ovens Rims Mug Toasters Bagels Boiler Coffee Mug

Author:Janet Evanovich

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”

Turns Doors Broken Promise Traps Arches Broken Promises

Author:Jane Austen

“When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.”

Said Black Realizing Rooms Saws Doors Broken Window Glasses Expensive Majesty Broken Glass

Author:Megan Whalen Turner