But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked

So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen for herself how eager they were to get her out of their sight.

I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

It was night in her lovely Ballroom, where a dream was completely safe. (book 4 chapter 3)

He closed the door carefully, as though his whole life had been spent in the exact science of closing doors.

That had the sound of a good exit line, so she went quickly into her room and slammed the door.

Mrs Draper took this as an order for her departure, and crept silently out of the room, closing the door behind her with the long protracted elaborate click which is always produced by an attempt at silence on such occasions.

The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.

I'd have to lock the door of the paint room. He wouldn't allow anyone in. I was like a prisoner.

She didn’t look around as I slammed the front door and locked it, just like I promised I’d do—cept I was outside the door, on the porch, when I done it.

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.

They're gonna try to lock you down again," "That's right, you heard it here. The people we can't see [laughs] that think they're in charge, are going to try to mask you, close down restaurants, close down stores, close down schools and lock you in your home again," she says before laughing with her hand over her mouth.