“I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.”

“Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.”

“My heart nearly stopped. I could feel my pores open to release what sweat I had left.”

“A brick could be used to prop open the door to my heart. But you might not want to leave the Love Door open, because my ex just shit all in there.
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“They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven’t been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway.”

“It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same.Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.”