“Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?”

“I was going to have to use my teeth to pull the curtains aside. I was leaning over, barng my teeth, when the thick curtain was yanked aside."What on earth are you doing?" Peter drawled. "You look positively feral.”

“She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of hate.”

“Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!”

“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”

“Living with her taught me this:That silence is a thick and dark curtain,the kind that pulls down over a shop window;that love is the repercussion of a stonebouncing off that same window - and that painis something you can embrace, like a rag dollnobody will ask you to share.”