Locks Quotes

“She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Key the mind, and set the soul free.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You're a handsome one, aren't you?" she cooed. "So strong and sturdy. What a good hasp you must have; what a firm sense of your purpose. But you've been holding your place for so long. You can't be expecting to stay closed forever. Why, that isn't fair! The people who put you here don't appreciate you the way I do. They don't understand how difficult it is to be a lock, and do the things you do. I would appreciate you always. I would never leave you alone in the rain to rust."

"Are we watching a woman try to seduce a lock?" asked Andrew. "I'm not objecting if we are -- your kink is okay and all -- but I just want to confirm that everyone else is seeing what I'm seeing, here."

The lock clicked as it released, popping open.

"No, we're watch a woman successfully seduce a lock, said Jeffery. "Fascinating."

"Her love life must involve a lot of handcuffs," I said, earning myself a snort from Ciara as she reached out and removed the padlock from its place on the door.

"Don't ask about mine and I won't ask about yours," she said, making the lock disappear into her pocket.”
― Seanan McGuire, Reflections

“If you wanted to understand it, you had to take it apart and see how it worked. If you wanted to master it, you had to learn it so well you could put it back together.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Father, too, is a contradiction. The least heralded physician in Noshahr, a father too busy healing others to notice his daughters' broken hearts. Not exactly true. I'm sure he notices. He just doesn't know what to do, and I don't know how to ask. So, here we are: him locking me in and me plotting my escape.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“We all have doors inside us that should never be opened. God help us all when we find the keys to unlock them.”
― Nenia Campbell

“Oh! The key … Well, the owner of the hut has left the key right beside the lock, including instructions.”
― Misba, The Oldest Dance

“The moon seemed to veil herself before the bold looks of Satan. The night was cold. All the doors were closed, all the windows darkened. and the streets deserted. From their appearance, one would have imagined that, for a long time past no foot had traversed those silent streets. Everything around us bore a death-like aspect. It seemed as if, when day came, no one would open their doors; that no head, of woman or of child, would look out of those dark, dull windows; that no step would break the silence which fell, like a pall, upon all around. I seemed to be walking in a city which had been buried some ages. In truth, the town seemed to have been depopulated, and the cemetery to have grown full.

Still we went forward, without hearing a murmur, or meeting even with a shadow. The street stretched for a long way across this fearful city of silence and repose. At last we reached my house.

'You remember it?' said the fiend.

'Yes,' replied I, sullenly, 'let us enter.'

'First,' said he, 'we must open the door. It is I, by the way, who invented the science of opening doors without breaking them in. In fact, I have a second key to all doors and gates - with one exception - that of Paradise!”
― James Hain Friswell

“It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.”
― Roger Von Oech, A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative

“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.”
― Doug Larson

“I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.”
― S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped

“No matter how much we might wish it, there is no way to build a lock that only angels can open and demons cannot. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant of the mathematics or less of an angel than they appear.”
― CGP Grey

“A key that opens many locks is worth buying.
A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.”
― Nabil N. Jamal

“Every key belongs to a lock, and every lock contains a secret. My mind churns for the truth that you hold. Why are you here? I never desired this for you, yet I am curious to know. Is this idle gaud the answer I seek, or is it merely the old memory of a dream I thought I once lived?”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King

“Every wall that I build to lock the world out is yet another wall that I’ve built that locks me in. And in the most heinous kind of imprisonment imaginable, I find that I have become both warden and inmate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The emotional trauma of a security breach can sometimes stay with a person for the rest of their lives. This is why the best prevention efforts are important for your family.”
― Franklin Gillette, How to Protect Yourself, Family, Property and Valuables from Crime in Public or at Home

“Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg

“Nobody seems to know which came first; egg or chicken – except of course for agents of the Time Saving Agency – who can find out anything about, well – anything. The only trouble is, they aren’t talking – however, you can take it from me – they know. The answer to these and other puzzles are kept safe and secure behind fire-walls and thick security doors secured with, er – time-locks, where one could possibly find answers to many other troubling questions, and not all of them necessarily relating to chickens.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“Education is the key; only when you've got the MASTER key to unlock all the locks!”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.”
― Dennis Vickers

“Canals are made of flat water, and flat water is difficult stuff to get hold of. It is expensive. You use locks to keep it flat when you go up hills. Sometimes, you have to take the water under hills in tunnels in order to preserve its flatness. Canals were not cheap to build.”
― Ian Marchant, Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams

“And he said...

...not all locks can be opened from the outside.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Do you think a simple lock can prevent me from being where I want to be?'

My stomach dipped. 'Well, that is somewhat... creepy.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Locks only eve keep out people who aren't determined to come in.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost