Closing Up Quotes

• When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

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  Michael Drayton

  Eye   Closing Up   Bed  

  'Idea' (1619) sonnet 61

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• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive   Adversity   Opportunity  

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• You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt like I was using every muscle in my face. But I did it. I saw you from upside down, your lips above my eyes and your eyes above my lips. "Talk to me," you said. My throat felt like it was closing up, as if my skin had swollen, making my throat a lump of solid flesh. I gripped your hand. "Keep watching me, then," you said. "Keep listening.

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  Lucy Christopher

  Lying   Eye   Hands  

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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• For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

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  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness   Bad Day   Closing Up  

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• After the make-up process, I was like, "I never want to do a sci-fi movie where I'm in make-up for seven months." It's interesting. It was my first time ever getting prosthetics. They put this goopy stuff all over your head and they tell you it's like a facial, but it's actually very claustrophobic. All they have are these places where your nostrils are and I kept thinking that they were closing up, but they were like, "No, we're looking at it." So, they made a mold of my face.

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  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking   Seven Months   Closing Up  

  Source: collider.com

  1964

• I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house. I am leaving England for a while." "For how long?" I asked him, determined to keep my composure. "Until I am quite recovered from you," he said evenly. "When will you return?" "Never.

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  Deanna Raybourn

  Closing Up   Long   House  

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.235, MIRA

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• I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

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  Jane Smiley

  Closing Up   Issues   Watches  

  Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.58, Anchor

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• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

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  Carl Sandburg

  Doors   Closing Up   Poetry  

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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