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Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father’s side, those classic and Western books  (Closed Windows Quotes) I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn’t know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn’t stop crying  (Closed Windows Quotes) You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring  (Closed Windows Quotes) Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It’s like opening a window in a closed room.  (Closed Windows Quotes) When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.  (Closed Windows Quotes) By then there had been other men. She’d flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.  (Closed Windows Quotes) It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.  (Closed Windows Quotes) I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.  (Closed Windows Quotes) Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.  (Closed Windows Quotes) To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows  (Closed Windows Quotes) I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty  (Closed Windows Quotes) I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer  (Closed Windows Quotes) Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows  (Closed Windows Quotes)