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“Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.”

Book Ideas Facts Home Water Doors Holy Blessing Crosses Including Defense Bars Selling Vampire Useless Bother Stakes Holy Water

Book:Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.”

Needs Sleep Poor Poverty Doors Gold Bars Rejoice Going To Sleep

Author:Robert B. Leighton

“Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.”

Knows Moments Behinds Know How Forever Doors Sky Protect Bird Bars Innocence Bolts Hawks Grove Caged Dodge Larks Vulture

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.”

Way Firsts Wells Black Doors Economics Bars Black Women Pioneers Pennsylvania Phds

Author:Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

“You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.”

Ifs Doors Phones Bars Locals Neighbour Pubs Cellars

Author:Jason Flemyng

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

Littles Soul Hands Mother Poor Doors Bars Bathroom Little Hands

Book:Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

“I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.”

Different Done Used Fire Doors Machines Clubs Bars Selling Buttons Spray Soda Fire Extinguishers

Author:J. B. Smoove

“The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.”