THE BEAUTY OF OPENING LINES & OPENING SOULS NOW
Today we explore the beauty of opening lines, paired with magnificent doors and windows awaiting to be opened. They both offer beautiful ideas about opening minds and souls. Each is a portal to a new state of being.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
– Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye To Berlin
"I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the white swan."
– Natalie Portman: Black Swan
“When you love someone, you’ve gotta trust them. There’s no other way. You’ve got to give them the key to everything that’s yours. Otherwise, what’s the point?”
– Robert De Niro: Casino
"The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored."
– Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
“She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree.”
– Josh Hartnett: Sin City
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
– Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
“I always believed it was the things you don’t choose that makes you who you are.”
– Casey Affleck: Gone Baby Gone
"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
“I’m 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I’m about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I’d never done a crazy thing in my whole life.”
– Ray Kinsella: Field of Dreams
"The hills are alive with the sound of music."
– Julie Andrews: The Sound of Music
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PHOTO CREDITS:
- Photo: by Maria Pia Cossu. Garden Door.
- Photo: by rickz. View of tower and stairway through Temple of Three Windows, Machu Picchu, Peru.
- Photo: by Trey Ratcliff. Dark Duomo. Milan, Italy.
- Photo: by Beatrice Murch. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Photo: by Arnim Schulz. Bucureşti - Bukarest 24, Romania.
- Photo: by Theophilos Papadopoulos. Secret Door. Crete, Greece.
- Photo: by Paolo Gattoni. La Porta Sul Cortile, Germango, Italy.
- Photo by: A Gift Wrapped Life. Green Door.
- Photo: by Jim Nix. The Secret Door in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Photo: by Ingeborg van Leeuwen. Door, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Photo: by Amaury Henderick. Green Door Sintra, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Photo: by Dean Tomasula. Doorway Entryway to a Crumpled Mansion. New York.
- Photo: by Berit Watkin. Malta: Gozo, Azure Window. Malta.
