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He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.
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?
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For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided.
door, and locking it behind them.
Either the locks were too large, or the key was too small,
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
You hold the key. And you can keep it in your hand for as long as you need to. But there will come a point where you're ready to use that key to break out of the jail you've put yourself in. Only you can set yourself free.
You just give folks a key, and they can rightly open their own locks.
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
It's a Caster lock, not something on your locker door." Link huffed as he worked the gardening shears into the crack. "You're not from around here. Isn't a door in this whole county that can't be opened with a set of pliers or a sharp toothbrush.
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.
Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.
If you can give up the thing behind the door, the lock will be opened by itself! Sometimes giving up is the best key!
Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[ ... ] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
Nothing is impossible to the human mind when the Lock is removed.
Take more'n a key to get out of Central Prison. I could open all eight of these gates and wouldn't none of you maggots get halfway out. You'd need all these here. He patted the ring at his hip, making the keys hooked upon it jangle.
No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist.
A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.
I feel that I am merely an agent, giving you some keys that have been given to me to pass on to you. These keys are to unlock doors out of your present prison. Doors opening onto new vistas. Doors beyond where you are now.
I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
Never try to lock the virtue's door with the key of vice
It may lock forever; never to be opened again
She shut the door and put the string of keys back on top of the kitchen doorframe. 'You didn't lock it,' said Coraline. Her mother shrugged. 'Why should I lock it?' She asked. 'It doesn't go anywhere.' Coraline didn't say anything.
You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks.
Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.
The doors of Hell, insofar as they have locks, have locks on the inside.
Do you have anything to pick a lock?" She asked desperately.
"Always." I slid one of the three bobby-pins I always kept with me off of my waistband, tossing it to her.
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
In office buildings and retail premises in which entry is through double doors and one of those doors is locked for no reason, the door must bear a large sign saying: This Door Is Locked for No Reason.
Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.
Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
If I was a locksmith, I'd be pimping that out man. I'll trade you a free key duplication for. That joke made me laugh before I could finish it, which is good, because it had no ending.
It doesn't matter that she's holding those keys. None of them lets her outside.
I see." Her troubled gaze focused on the lock. "And the key would be ... ?"
"Gone," he said. "Lost years ago. Not that it matters none. I once seen His Grace kick in a brick wall 'cause he was in a mood for what lay on the other side.
They've got these things called lockers," I raved on. "The Halls are lined with them. And you won't believe what they're for! They're for locking stuff away-so other people won't steal it! Why can't everyone share?" ~ Cap
They think they can keep me out, but it does not matter how many locks they hang at the entrance. There is always another door.
- The Thief Who Stole the Stars, by Tristan Chirsley
Unscrew the locks from the doors !
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !
You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.
Every closed door aint locked.
You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock
Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up ... because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.
Thus saying, I turned my full attention to the lock. Like a proper maiden, it resisted for a token moment. But, upon further adept agitation of its slender hole, it relinquished its charms with smooth, willing finesse.
The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever.
Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.
A simple question unlocks best.
I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.
The bad news: There is no key to the universe. The good news: It was never locked.
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
All the time I've knowed you, Jack, you kept the door to that heart of yers locked up tight an the key hid away. Looks like she found it.
He says nothing. Molly waits. Then:
Keys ain't her style, he says. She kicked the door down.
Mind is the lock. Knowing is the key. Unlock the mind and open your heart.
When you love someone, really love someone, it's a lasting mark on your soul. There's a lock on your heart that you'll carry with you always. You may lose the key or give it away, but the lock stays with you all the same.
Gold
the picklock that never fails.
She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.
Click. The door swung open.
"Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile.
"Well done," Caroline said.
He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.
If you put a door marked "Authorized Personnel ONLY" and me in the same building, sooner or later I'll try to jimmy its lock to discover what's so special about it.
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
the little steel retaining pin that locks down the
Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
There is a large wooden cross like an X fastened to the wall facing the door. It's made of high-polished mahogany, and there are restraining cuffs on each corner.
You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?
Seize time by the forelock.
Human locks? Please," Tamani said. "May as well leave the door open.
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn't sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock - as she had learned at school.
A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.
Already she knew that the sound of a lock clicking into place would forever be a sensual cue, a promise Rafe would make to her of the pleasure he was going to give her with his hands, his lips, his
I have not stepped into another jail, not yet, but I can feel the key in the lock, threatening to turn.
So often does it happen that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know there is no key.
Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.
You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.
And we're locked in."
"I am actually aware of that."
"I mean the guard is locked out
We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.
Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key ...
I've been learning this kind of thing," Tavi replied. "I can show you later. How did you steal all of that without learning how to open a lock?"
"I stole the keys," Katai said. "Obviously.
I swear, I'm gonna have to lock you up. I'd chain you to my bed, except I'm seldom in it.
How'd you get in here?"
She raised her eyebrows. "You pick pockets." Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. "I can pick locks. Looking for this?" she asked, holding up his wallet. "Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.
If you lock the door on sorrow,
how will it leave your heart?
Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.
And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.
You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.
For every cloud of revival there is a need to unlock with a key
Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.
Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
I've got keys to crap I've never owned. You put all my keys together I could be a high school janitor tonight.