| 单词 | closet |
| 例句 | “I’ll hide in the coat closet and look through the keyhole.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As my mom digs through her closet, she finds a box. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z He paces back and forth in the doorway of his closet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s so far out of this century he can’t go to the bathroom, he goes to the water closet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then he takes this red and white plastic cooler out of the supply closet, puts it on his desk, and opens it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I saved those writings—they now sit in a box on a closet shelf—and to this day it still hurts me to read them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It only takes an instant for Pattie to find the handle on the closet door. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She goes back to her closet and pulls out three more. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After that, whenever I started to doubt Adam’s feelings, I’d think about my wig, gathering dust in my closet, and it would bring back the memory of that night. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He locked my bag in a closet and I stepped to the sidewalk wondering where Harlem was, wondering where I would sleep that night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The way Jupiter Charity-Sanchez is now staring at the poster on her closet door—flushed cheeks, moist eyes, closed mouth—makes me want to absquatulate into a crevasse somewhere and perish. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z They’re trying to look casual as they test out the doors to various supply closets. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, this is wonderful, Milt. No closets, and now we have to call the fire department to get Callie out of the door.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had not only a bedroom but a sitting room beside it, and the toilet was in a closet right in the bedroom. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The silver cocktail dress hung in her closet, the tag dangling from the seam. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Great plan, Noah. Except, how about you tell her? I’ll be hiding in the closet, in case she goes ballistic.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I asked your mom to put these in the coat closet so it wouldn’t spoil the surprise.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z She goes into the hall closet and picks up the laundry basket. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He dragged his dirty clothes hamper from the closet and dumped it on the floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z One day while rummaging through the bathroom closet he found a bottle of Agua Florida that he had overlooked when taking Lucile the rest of Alice’s cosmetics. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It's Gerhard, standing at the closet, a gaping duffel bag at his feet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z There were clothes in the closet, and they fit me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I finally wind up sneaking into Beth’s room and taking her blue-and-white-striped dress from the back of her closet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Then he stomped over to the other closet door and locked it too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Ariana went into a closet and pulled out another pale-blue apron that matched hers, with the Ari’s Cakes logo embroidered on it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Some boxes were stacked in closets, others were hidden in the attic. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered from my high-school course that alcohol reduces fever; I found a half bottle of rubbing alcohol in the upstairs medicine closet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Next thing I know, I got a hanger from the closet in my left hand and a butter knife from the sink in my right. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He watched her as she moved from the door and went to the closet for her hat and coat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z To be clear: More than anything, I wish I hadn’t gone into that closet with Brian. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It had hidden switches that would be used during a police raid to lock all the building’s doors and to lock and hide all cupboards and closets in which liquor was stored. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The last place I search is the closet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Velia asked her twin, pulling an old tattered sweater out of the cluttered closet. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I stayed in my closet until the noon whistle began to blow at the Snapfinger Volunteer Fire Department. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I already know what is in Mother’s closet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The Mellower had locked himself into a closet, and even the cries of Sekai couldn’t lure him out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in a crooked cranny near a back corner of the Homestead, Minho pulled out a key and opened up a shabby door leading to a small storage closet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “We have to treat her immediately. Arturo, get me my bulto, my medicine bag. It’s in the hallway, in the broom closet, up high. Hurry! We don’t have much time.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Rishi opened the closet door for cover, let his towel slip, and climbed into his boxers and jeans. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He had a walk-in closet full of sawed-off shotguns. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Peeta’s feet slamming into the closet door break up the ragged breathing of the others. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z If Washington became the quasi-monarchical president who could be trusted, Adams became the closet monarchist who could not. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then I hide the bloody sheets in the back of my closet. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z On the morning of day seven, he’s digging in the back of his closet when he stumbles upon a bundle of teal silk—the stupid kimono Pez had made for him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Hunt and one of Barker’s men stayed behind, hidden in a liquor storage closet. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ellen pulls a Sweet 16 shopping bag from the depths of her closet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She slept in her own bed, in a room decorated with dolls that had never been played with, with a closet full of pretty dresses and shiny patent-leather shoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He’d kept his glass underwater box in the corner of the closet, his mitt on top of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z That is how Jenna and I managed to wind up in the back of Beth’s closet, so I guess the spider web-filled tunnels are good for something. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, I think I have three bottles left of the dozen in my closet.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She was looking toward my open closet, bulging with racks of shoes, ties, my dresses, and Rich’s suits. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard John rummaging through the closets in the kitchen and a banging of bottles. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z My costume was hanging up in an overflow closet full of out-of-season coats and my grandparents’ clothes that Mom couldn’t bear to give away. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The zoots lined up in my closet are so fly, they nearly have wings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She returned to Finn’s room and placed the saucer on the floor by the closet door, where the mother could find it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I throw my stuff in the closet and walk over. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Through the closet we entered another room, rectangular and compact. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z There was a closet here, full of odds and ends, old chairs with broken backs, paint-spattered canvas sheeting. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I want you to see the way my mom spread her stuff into his side of the closet, how it looks like his suits were never even hanging there in the first place. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When they got back to her house, she pulled a half dozen shirts from the closet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "A closet cousin," Fifi says, searching her purse for a photo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It’s worse than thinking about him and Jude in the closet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Lelia especially liked the tiny secret room that was tucked behind a false panel in the closet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s sitting on the couch, knitting a blanket, so I get inside my closet and close the door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z What was so important in that closet that it required a lock? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z No one answered; but a form emerged from the closet; it took the light, held it aloft, and surveyed the garments pendent from the portmanteau. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I wrestle a frame off another old painting from the back of my closet and put the blurred portrait in it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It would be Bodega and the likes of Sapo who would have the skeletons in the closet, all so Nazario could help create new hope for the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She pulled out an old brown leather bag filled with tiny holes where the closet mice had nibbled at it over the years. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I yank on the light chain in my closet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She moved rapidly through the house, even showing the servants’ quarters and storage closets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He went over to the closet in a big hurry. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Storage boxes are now piled in the hall closet, the pantry, and Mom and Dad’s bedroom closet. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We stand in his closet, and she covers her mouth at how bare it is, how much is gone. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I check myself in the mirror on my closet and then head for the door, but I stop because along the bottom frame of my bulletin board is a new row of stickers. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I might have claimed it was to soothe her, but really, it was so I didn’t have to think about lynchings and death threats and robes in the closet. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z WHY is a dirty shirt hanging in your closet? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By then I had filled up half my closet wall with boy-crazy confessionals. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They were so crowded into the small space that the closet door would never stay fully closed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They ask a total of one question: about three Free French flags rolled up in a second-floor closet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two: I still wore my Snowberger’s baseball cap and my lime green shorts, and I still sat in my closet, where I did my homework and made my plans. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I pull back into the closet and shut the door in front of me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “I do. In the back of my closet. I do. But I don’t have a closet or a pillow here. And...” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I print the phrase carefully, copying it down from inside my head, from inside my closet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can sit in your Mom’s closet for a little while,” she said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Naturally, we were glad the cash register and the typewriters had been safely tucked away in our clothes closet. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I see that Vic has a large selection of ties in his closet, leading me to believe that he likes wearing them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I listened until her footsteps moved down the hall, then I turned to the closet. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I chose this dress especially for him, after trying on everything funeral-appropriate in my closet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “We might be all wrong about those Instructions. They could just be about some old Pipeworks tool closet.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If his coats were all that hung in the closet and he'd known his lungs were black and he drank his whiskey without suspicion. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “What are you doing with Potter, all these evenings you are closeted together?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The closets were full of suits, dozens of them perfectly aligned from lightest gray to darkest black. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z We wait while a guy takes off his suit jacket and hangs it in a closet by his seat. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Instead of a closet, there was a large cardboard box that had once held a refrigerator and would now hold the three children’s clothes, all piled in a heap. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The closet is warm and I’m ready for a nap. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, I’d taken my gray coat from the closet, but it was so small it looked as if it might have belonged to my little sister. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I’ve pulled the voice recorder from my closet and have it sitting on the middle of my bed now. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He points to the closet, his bedroom, says everything can be found there. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I found her dress in the closet and handed it to her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly a wave of fatigue and nausea shuddered over me, and I went to the closet, got my coat, and left, closing the door quietly behind me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was eventually given the seal’s skull, and he and his cousins displayed it in his bedroom closet, which he called the “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z At the convent, when I mop, I hang my uniform on a wire hanger in the nuns’ closet and slip on my old brown shift, in which I feel comfortable and almost invisible. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s onstage but I’m not in it, so it must have been when I was in the supply closet. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She led them into the master bathroom, where she used the key to unlock a closet door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But for many years afterward, sometimes I would get Marvin out of the closet and just hang out with him for a while—not for me, but for Marvin. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “Thanks for being the best Last Friend a closet case could ask for.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “What a guy,” I thought to myself as I hauled the vacuum cleaner out of the closet. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m cold where I was hot before, and I’d really like to put my clothes back on and go crawl into my closet, please and thank you. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I would spend my Saturdays and Sundays finding all of the people named Black and learning what they knew about the key in the vase in Dad’s closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I pick him up, stroking his fur, then go to the closet and dig out my game bag and unceremoniously stuff him in. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I went to the closet and then came back with a mink jacket that Rich had given me for Christmas. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I ducked back into my shallow closet in search of something different to wear. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z My legs take me down the steps, to the coat closet, out of the house, and to the corner of American and Joy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I put it in the back of my closet, facing the wall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a closet, the door opened to reveal a second door, this one made of steel with a large combination wheel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I find aspirin and store-bought toothpaste in the medicine cabinet and clean towels in the hall closet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I wipe grime from windows and put the board games in the closet and clean the garbage from the bedrooms. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I had not just a closet but a spacious dressing room adjoining it—the same room from which Laura Bush had shown me the Rose Garden view. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Jessie went to the hall closet and got out her backpack, which had been hanging there, empty, since the last day of school. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z From the center of the room, I turn a 360 to see what’s considered necessary in a temporary home—television, a small fridge, an enormous closet, a desk and chair. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She thought a mob might burst into the house and she wanted to hide me, but I wasn’t sure that she knew the best places or would even think of the closet under the stairs. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And then—though everything starts to blur now in my mind—she lunged away from him into the closet, away from his grabbing hands, scrambling for something high on a shelf. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “This one is from my fantastic childhood. Childhood punishments. The tiny closet upstairs.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Nipper up was at his usual spot on the closet shelf. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z After I glued both wings on, the plane got too big to stick back in its box, so I had to hide it under a pillowcase on the top shelf in my closet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z A few items of clothing were missing from the closets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They brought two sheets from the linen closet in Henry’s house and draped them over the scarecrows before moving them out into the garden. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She came out again bearing another striped kitten, which she also dropped into the nest at the bottom of the closet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It shouldn’t, of course—the only closet Jupe’s ever been in is the one where she just changed her clothes—but it does. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The key to Mother’s closet is still there. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I opened my closet to look for my pajamas. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I hid it in my closet, and forgot about it, but then found it and ate it the following day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He was in the closet, where he was looking for the overnight bag that his mother had bought for him for a disastrous one-day stay at a boys’ camp when he was eleven. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He opens the door to his closet, and it actually looks pretty cool. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And the truth is, I wanted to get out of the room, this little closet room, with the beeping things, and the TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Did you bring me a snort, by any chance? Miss Love ain’t no different from yore ma when it comes to whiskey in the closet.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I catch a sliver of a white shirt, the variety of which I’m used to ironing every day, and the leg of a pair of khaki pants like I hang up in Mister Johnny’s closet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Every T-shirt in her dresser, every pair of jeans in her closet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I close the piano and yank a Windbreaker from the front closet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He shuffled over to a storage closet, and went inside it, and closed the door behind him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her green dress hanging in the closet and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He went into the kitchen and got the step stool so he could go through the shoe boxes on the top shelf of their closet. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Wes began his ritual search for change in her closet, but the jar was not in its usual place. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I asked, hopping out of bed and running to my closet. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Through the door of Jesses bedroom, hanging on a closet door knob, was the corduroy porkpie he used to wear to Middleton High. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Obviously we don't have as much room here as we had in the old house. . . She reached into the closet and pulled out a black plastic garbage bag. " Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I hid the liquor inside my shoes in the bedroom closet, in the bathroom dirty clothes hamper, in the laundry room, and in other secret places. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She announced that it was time to pack up, and sent George’s row first to the coat closet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He looked in one of the upstairs closets for the tent he’d bought a few years back. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “You checking out my closet, figuring out how much I get paid, you must be FBI or something,” Ice said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I go to the back of the closet and find the door in the floor. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “I found those at the back of the upstairs closet. They may have been here from the previous tenants.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She opens the closet door and studies her image in the speckled mirror. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull my art project out from the closet and stare at it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Her voice was coming out of the depths of the closet and was muffled by a line of overcoats. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She go to the closet and brung out this little tape recorder and a pile of tapes. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Imagining a safe place to hide a small painting, she thought of drawers, cupboards, cabinets, closets, blanket chests....Everything she pictured was wood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The neighbor lady won’t check the closets, you tell yourself, but your body is a statue just in case. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Ever since they were babies, they had burrowed little nests for themselves in closets and underneath stairs; they made tents under tables and behind doors. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day I went out to the garage, up to the nook behind the closet, to read some old novels. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I rushed back into the house, into our bedroom, threw open the closet, yanked my black dress off its hanger, ripping the right sleeve, waking Jaimito with my piteous crying. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All her talk made me start jamming a chair up against my closet door at night. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z As she walked back to her sister, she noted corners and passageways, broom closets, other offices—ambush spots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were about the same size and had about the same amount of furniture and closet space. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I don’t want to spend the night here in this dark closet against the hard cases. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I plug the phone into my charger and walk over to the closet. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Come and take a walk, my dear?” cried Polly, hopping toward the china closet, with a look suggestive of a lump of sugar. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I took a roll of dark tape from the hall closet and patched the hole in Stick’s jacket with a wide X. Then I slipped it on. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z It reminded me of the room in Doctor Gordon's hospital—a bed, a bureau, a closet, a table and chair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z But light from the hallway seeped into the room, into the closet, and his footsteps walked away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She picked up her Harlett O’Hara gown from the sofa and hung it in the closet while the cockatoo watched her and squawked a bit from its perch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was not a fun place to be if you happened to have a touch of claustrophobia—sitting in a pitch-black Level 4 closet while wearing a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I get a pang of guilt over what I did in that closet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I tiptoe down to the front closet and pull out the first coat and boots I find. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I lay awake at night thinking that she could die giving birth, and I would closet myself with Dr. Cuevas trying to figure out the best way to help her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z James pushed back a curtain concealing a closet filled with a desk and computers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She chose, instead, to closet herself in her room, where she acted the tyrant with the servants. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When I get home, I poke around my bedroom closet first thing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z My old black noise-canceling headphones are stashed in a box on the top shelf of my closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z They opened closets and cupboards, but all were empty. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He couldn't comply with all of the requirements imposed on him, so he was frequently locked in a closet, denied food, and subjected to beatings and other physical abuse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Instead of answering, I point at the closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Bull turned his attention toward the closet, inspecting the arrangement of shoes, the hanging clothes, and the shelves. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The inside ol Mom and Dad's bedroom closet is off-limits, so every time JB asks me to go in there to look through Dad’s stuff, I say no. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z In the end, she put on a pair of boyfriend jeans and then a maroon shirt that she found in the back of her closet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She drew him aside and then took him to my closet and threw open the door. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I go to my bedroom and stand in front of the closet, looking for something to wear. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I pick him up and head over to the closet, where I store my art supplies. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The head on a boat is basically a glorified closet, with ' barely enough room to sit and do your business. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A red sneaker next to its mate on the shoe rack in my closet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Finally, he picked the right key and opened the closet door. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “Do you even have a club in that closet, Beaumont?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Finally, in a green plastic box on the floor on his side of the closet, I found a big, black permanent marker. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The princess took a gown from her closet. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z For a minute, we just sit there, listening to Nick hum as he pokes around his storage closet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The truth was she would rather stay in the too-hot room and read than strip the dusty beds and sweep out moth-infested closets. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She went to a closet contrived of a calico curtain hung across a corner of the room and got the felt hat she had worn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In my closet I pulled on my lime green shorts and looked at myself in the mirror. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She goes out around noon, and while she’s gone, I steal one of Dad’s suits from the closet. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he nodded, went down the hall to the supply closet, and came back with a shovel and two brooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z When Phoebe pulled a blouse out of the closet, she said she could see her mother standing at the ironing board smoothing the blouse with her hand. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Girl walks down creepy stairs in the back of a smelly storage closet, and she is never seen again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When I close the closet door behind me, I bury my face into the clothes on the left side of the rack, clothes that haven’t fit for years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed my green duffel bag out of the closet. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z For shoes, I dig out a pair of old leather slippers from the back of my closet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I stopped at the bathroom to wring the water out of my sock, and then grabbed my apron from the closet in the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It wasn’t much more than a supply closet, but Papi had a desk, and maybe he kept some cash there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I picked one to take with me to the closet, a shiny spiral with brown freckles. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He darted into a closet behind the piano and shut the door an instant before Felicia came into the room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn't realize your schedule was so important, Hanneke. Fetch my handbag from the hallway closet.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In the closet hang a few moth-eaten girl’s dresses and a sweater on which embroidered goats chew flowers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z You have to pass the closet to get to the laundry room, and people in this building do laundry at all hours. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z In my bureau were three things of hers that I had taken from her closet after she left: a red, fringed shawl; a blue sweater; and a yellow-flowered cotton dress that was always my favorite. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Your parents’ closet makes you feel better right away. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Was she supposed to avoid all closets unless specifically told to open them? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Long, flowing dresses, short shimmering skirts, and ruffled-collar shirts filled her closet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will find the dustpan and broom inside the hall closet on the left.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She thinks of the cream-colored cardigan bought with her grandmother in mind, sitting in a shopping bag in the closet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I find it in the bottom of my closet—only a little bit dirty—and slide it on. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The walls, the closet doors, the lamps and lights, the desk, the ceiling, everything. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Suddenly she hurried to the linen closet and started frantically searching for something. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One result of this was the white picket fence and the closet of handmade clothes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the hall I pull my brown suitcase from the back of the closet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It’s usually the number of buttons in her collection or shoes in my mother’s closet or spools of thread in the drawer. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened a closet door and a dozen roaches fell onto her hands. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He’s raided my mother’s closet and is wearing her favorite black T-shirt and a black leather jacket from her “punk phase” in college. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z When I open the closet, we all fall silent because Cinna’s presence is so strong in the flow of the fabrics. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I’m wearing a black dress decorated with hot-glued glitter stars that I cut out of some old Christmas wrapping paper I found in my closet. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z A man’s work clothes, stiff with dirt, hang oddly ballooned in the closet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When he poked his head out of the closet, he saw that the hallway was deserted. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t have the key to the closet anymore anyway. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I let myself feel the smallness and closeness of the closet pressing in on me, and I think about Sir Patrick Moore’s black hole trick, when he just vanished into thin air. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When she was younger, Lina had tried exploring in this closet, but she never got far. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By the time the fire was under control, my sister's closet and our bathroom were burned to a crisp. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I sit up and turn on a light and look around my room, as if the man might be lurking behind the desk or in the closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I bite my bottom lip and pull open the closet door. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As we leave, I look back at the closet of moldering clothes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Somebody slams into my chest and knocks me back into the closet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I kept a diary of all my crushes in my bedroom closet. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Wear the blue satin dress hanging in your closet and leave your hair down. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I found beer in your mom’s closet, in her room.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And then, Emily said, she had busted out of the closet to run to the girls’ bathroom, but the classroom door had been locked for the drill. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “No, it was in our closet. Poppy was chewing on it, that’s why it’s torn up. But look at the writing on it. Isn’t it strange?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Carefully, I open the door to the janitor’s closet, grabbing the paper towels from a packed shelf of cleaning supplies and trying not to wake her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z After dropping my bag in the closet of my narrow room on the fourth floor, I sit on the bed and bounce a few times. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Getting down on his hands and knees, he’d inched across the matted carpet and found the small black bag his father kept in the closet. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Felix went from room to room—there weren't many—turning on lights and checking under the bed, in closets, and in the bathtub for a murderer. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I walk into the closet, where the black light has been replaced by a regular old bulb. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I know where it is, folded up in a box in her closet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z In that case, I’d wanted an extra pillow out of their closet, but I’d just done the silly tittery laugh thing and stumbled backward, closing the door behind me super quick. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The best one was when she’d balanced a small plastic bucket of gumdrops over the closet door so that when I opened it all the way, it fell on me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z She headed over to Taryn’s closet, cursing their stupid pondering tradition, cursing that little word that slipped out of her mouth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Papa and I already pulled an old, broken one from a closet to turn in instead of our nice one. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The day after Ophie opened the forbidden closet in Mrs. Caruthers’s room the old woman had the groundskeeper, Mr. Henry, add a padlock to the door. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I counted out three hundred and fifty sheets of corrasable bond from my mother's stock in the hall closet, secreted away under a pile of old felt hats and clothes brushes and woolen scarves. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “And there’s a switch in the back closet I’m not afraid to use.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All I know is, there’s a suspicious-looking shirt hanging in my closet. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I think of the story, of the kids who disappear into a closet and find themselves in a different land. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Platernis let her store her equipment in the closet with his own cleaning equipment and supplies, just to keep an eye on her, he said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I had remembered, searched for, and found in the front coat closet something I had forgotten: a cane my father once used when he had a sprained ankle. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He went to his room, into the closet, closed the door and listened. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I decided to think like Safa. I found it wedged between the bundles of old clothes in the closet.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Before his appointment with Kaori, Virgil unloaded everything from his backpack and stuffed it with fleece blankets that he secretly swiped from the linen closet. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z By the open closet door was a great pile of coats and boots and bags and boxes, their contents all spilled out and tangled up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Great plan, Noah. Except, how about you tell her? I’ll be hiding in the closet, in case she goes ballistic.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I drag my desk chair over to my closet and stand on it so that I can reach the top shelf. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z However, no sooner was he stretched out than he sat bolt upright, his head and shoulders suddenly propelled into view, with somewhat the macabre-comic effect of a corpse falling out of a closet. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z On Saturday I got up before dawn, sat in my closet, and wrote some remarks to give at Dismay’s Life Service. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he's had to take refuge in the temporary holding closet Vic advised him and the others to construct? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They have a special midden where they put out their used bones and rubbish, proper earth closets, and bedrooms whose bedding they turn out frequently, to keep it clean. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her new gray gown had been delivered the previous day along with the children’s clothes and was now hanging in the closet of her bedroom. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z That night, I move into my walk-in closet, which is warm and cozy, like a cave. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When they were gone, I got my suitcase from the closet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I am struggling with a deep secret—being a “closet drinker.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z One door, painted white, led to a closet, another to a toilet and a tub. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Do you have anything in your closet I could wear that would pass as a costume?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She kept the box hidden in her closet on a shelf under some sweaters. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Kelly turned back to the closet and held shirts and skirts against each other, looking for the perfect match. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z In my head, I write: There was a hoy who lived in a closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “The complete price is $10,500, for two bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen, bath, and dining space, and five closets.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I run from the closet down the hallway to the kitchen, where Lily keeps a drawer of basic tools. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The sound of his boohooing followed me up the stairs and all the way to my closet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Weakly, Luke leaned his head back against the closet wall. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The girls had some things in the closets, and around; he had seen all of that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels like lots and lots of it, so much that when we walk out of this closet, it’ll be time for us to go to college or die even. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Felicia had enough stored in her closet to knock out an entire city. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled it off and crawled naked into the closet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she pushed the bag back as far as she could on the highest shelf in the closet, behind the towels and a humidifier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I became so used to being in the closet that I put snacks in there and a mini TV to watch. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Jenna pulls her clothes out of the closet and lays them on the bed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Because you put on a big act, kid. You try to get by with a sincerity act. But you’re not kidding me. You live in the closet.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed content with whatever clothes she found at the front of the closet, with whatever magazine was lying around, with whatever song was on the radio — content yet curious. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I remember Mom’s friend, Dr. Nguyen, but think Voxy’s tiny closet is way too small to be the universal seed vault where Mom contributed New Mexican corn, squash, and beans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Drawer after drawer, hanger after hanger, I filled up my dresser and my closet with new clothes that fit. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The bed’s stripped to the mattress, the closet gapes open, showing the emptiness inside, but I’d know this room anywhere. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Finally he found the bird in the closet, on the high shelf. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z My room is on the second floor—one of ten rooms on the upper level, along with an assortment of closets, bathrooms, nooks, and other small windowless rooms that seem to have no purpose. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Kelly gave an exaggerated sigh and headed off to the coat closet to join the group of girls huddled around Maddy and Emma. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Then she pulled the denim bag from the bottom of her closet and brushed her fingers against the glossy magazines. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He could easily pick me up and toss me into the closet, but I knew he actually wanted me to keep him still and safe. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Zeitoun stood and was led by three soldiers into a small room—some kind of utility closet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z From the equipment closet, Mr. Jones drags gymnastic mats. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She slithered for hundreds of feet in the unimaginable dark, an almost tangible darkness, blacker than night, blacker than closets with closed doors, blacker than closed eyes under bedsheets. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z While everyone scattered, I crept into my favorite hiding place, the little closet tucked under the stairs. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But after she leaves and I see the dark suit hanging on the closet door, I piece it all together. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I step out of the closet, lock it, and hurry to my room, trying to slip silently upstairs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Heard their hallway conversation, and the bathroom laughter penetrating the broom closet like fumes from her bottle of ammonia. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexa hands me a dress, something straight out of a teen magazine, and pushes me in the direction of my closet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Lunchtime I hide in the locker room, the supply closet, or the bathroom. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z What if he actually got out of the closet and drove to see me? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He found the bedrooms—huge, elegant rooms with beautifully carved beds and long, mirrored closets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I shut the closet door and tugged my shirt over my head. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I was searching in the closet for something to wear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I throw open my closet door to grab a hoodie, pulling it on and peering out at the nurses’ station to see if the coast is clear. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z We can hang strips impregnated with the chemical lindane in our closets and garment bags or place them in our bureau drawers for a half year’s freedom from worry over moth damage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All the worry comes out and just spills all over the floor of his closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then I pulled out the old clothes from my closet. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d kept it in the back of her closet till recently and felt sad, after the estate sale, that it was gone forever. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The closet door creaks as I push it open. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They handed their wraps and coats to Sanjeev, who draped them carefully on hangers in the spacious coat closet, though Twinkle told people to throw their things on the ottomans in the solarium. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z What I notice right away about the walk-in closet is that there are tons of dark suits hanging everywhere, looking like rows of men at a funeral. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Looking for concealed closets or panels or knobs, they tapped along the south wall, straining their eyes against the shadows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I sit down on the floor of the closet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Will he go back to putting things in closets? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Every day, closeted in my stone cell, I write. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I even looked in the pantry and in Papa’s closet. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “They made it impossible for him to play. Every day, they found another way to mess with him. Then one Friday after school, they locked him in the storage closet.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was a closet filled with hundreds and hundreds of jelly bean fish. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Miss Thomas said, “We’re going to have to talk to Mr. Calloway about where you can put your things, Bud, I don’t think you’ll be able to fit anything in those closets.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It led into a square room that looked like a closet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we’d be upstairs right now, in my closet, me wrapped in a blanket and drinking cocoa, Dismay sitting across from me with his big dog mouth panting, so glad to be alive. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My favorite shirt is the Michael Jordan #23 Bulls jersey I have hanging in the closet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I give each of them a kiss, slide the clothes back over them, then step out of my closet and pull the door shut behind me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Inside the closet hangs my father’s hunting jacket. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But then she sat up, knocking the fan over as she ran to her closet, naked and cussing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Why is there a computer in your closet with my name on it?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He knew where things were: socks in the top dresser drawers, toys in the bedroom closets, skates and bikes on the back porch, and pots and pans stacked neatly in the kitchen cabinet. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Thupa Inka closeted himself with the local leadership and laid out many inspired ideas for the valley’s betterment, all of which were gratefully endorsed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She dashed to the closet and pulled out a flared skirt of purple swirls and rummaged through a drawer for a hot-pink tank top. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z This was where the senator preferred to hold his meetings, weave his intrigues, forge his deals, and, in his lonely hours, closet himself to release his rage, his frustrated desire, or his sorrow. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every single drawer had been emptied, clothes had been shoved aside in the closets, and carpets had been rolled up. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Mom nodded, getting Baboo from inside my closet. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z In the closets they found a variety of tools and equipment, but no obvious gear for milking gargantuan cows. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A wave of satisfaction swept through Clayton now that he had the hat safely out of reach in his closet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I take my shoes off and kick them at the closet door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Elinor went around behind the closet door again, obviously to look at herself in a mirror. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Once the Mancinis go out, we have to stay quietly in the closet and can’t move around or use the bathroom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z By the time we rode the elevator upstairs, our clothes were organized neatly in the closets; the kitchen pantry had been stocked with our favorite foods. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Just emptied the dustpan in the trash, then put the broom back in the kitchen closet. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Tacked on the closet door was a black and white picture from an old magazine—Life, it said, 1945. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The next morning, I step into my closet, pull out my sneakers, and lace them up. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Soon the steps came around the corner and into the narrow hall, and then Oscar stepped inside the closet and ran his hand over the hanging suits and dresses, then stopped cold. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He came out, left the door open and, in order to get to the closet quickly and without sound, pulled off his shoes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She put on one of the dresses that made their way into our closet after the departmental presentations. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Then we spend the rest of the lunch period talking about what Dad told me about Gram’s childhood and what I found in her closet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I look closer—what I took to be closet shelves are just the front layer of a complex construction. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I open my closet to make sure there’s nothing else I need. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I guess my mother knew, but it was one of those things put away in the family closet and never brought out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I walked past the closet mirror in the room to get my clothes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I went into the bedroom and opened the closet with all of Mr. Pignati’s clothes. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “We better unpack and put our suitcases in the closet” Milton answered. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She flung open the drawers of the bureau and the door of the closet, filled with saris of every imaginable texture and shade, brocaded with gold and silver threads. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He throws his jacket in the hall closet before bounding up the stairs to his room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Pickled frogs have a way of disappearing from the storage closet, so today Ms. Keen armed us with knives and told us not to gag. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I ran to my laboratory and got my metal detector out of its box in the closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z None of the Population Police answered Jen’s father, but the pattern of shadows that fell on Luke’s blanket made him think the Population Police were standing right in the doorway of the closet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time he stopped talking, Charles and Henry had completed whatever business they’d been discussing and Charles had gone to the closet for his overcoat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I return Walden to the center of my desk and take my dust cloth to my closet to drop it in the laundry bin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He ignored Natalie and began pushing clothes from one side of the closet to the other, even though he didn’t really believe he would find a laptop behind or underneath them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Jared steps ahead to talk to the others, and Jus watches Manny examine his tied sweater, his khakis, his loafers—his “costume” made up of clothes he pulled from his closet. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He kind of choked up the last word, seeing how it was tomorrow that he was going to be shoved out of his closet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then he carried the new samples back into the closet and turned out the lights and looked again into his microscope. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted Dad’s whistling, and the scratching sound of his red pen, and the pendulum swinging in his closet, and him tying his shoelaces. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He walked out of the closet carrying a stack of oversized books with thick leather spines and dark green cloth covers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We all stand in the hallway while Carlos goes inside the closet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It’s more of a closet with 3 huge filing cabinets, a desk, and an ancient computer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I sit in my closet and phone the girls to share the news. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He’s got an office the size of a closet. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I do my best thinking in the closet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I sat down at the counter, smoothing the white tunic top I’d dug out of my closet. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He held up a red-and-black-striped flannel to his torso and looked in the mirror on his closet door. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I dug some sweatpants out from the closet and pulled them on. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Betsy just shrugged, and when Mrs. Rouse got up to get something from the closet, Betsy wrote me a new note. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z As if on cue, there’s a series of bumps from the other side of the closet door, and Henry, halfway into Alex’s boxers, comes literally tumbling out of the closet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A closet door stood open, and several drawers of Grampa’s dresser stuck out A chair in the corner had been tipped over. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m closeted at work, revealing myself only to a few friends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then he replaced the box in the closet and flung the garments back into it and went down stairs to the telephone. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the hall at the maid’s closet, of course, getting more supplies. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I used to sit in my closet and pry open the paint can and stare into the shiny pink circle and was mesmerized for hours. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed open his arms and walked to the closet, opening the door in Bloody Miles’s face. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I bring the journal from the sycamore tree, which I’ve kept in my room all this week, hidden in the corner of the closet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z If this is what he has in the open, I'm now curious to look in one of his closets. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Several closets appeared, walls creaked, but there was no sign of the painting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It took several moments of suspicious inspection to figure out what it was—the bright red dress from the trailer’s closet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In the closet, my favorite pair of jeans and the jet-black I Heart Booths T-shirt Quinton got me last year are waiting for me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Put them in the almari, not the closet. He likes the whites in the top drawer, the rest in the middle, with the socks.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It wasn't his bedroom door, or a closet door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Some of Mama’s oldest clothes were still in the closet, and one or two of Tata's jackets, but her jewelry was missing, along with my grandmother’s gilded egg that opened like a box. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He followed Leslie up the hall to where she was pulling things out of a closet. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z It made me run and hide in closets, cry, and hold my breath. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After I fed Lynn, I got my pajamas from the closet, said good night, and left the room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When the couple and their daughter had returned from their sabbatical, Pearl had not even been able to look at the girl, tanned and wiry and too tall now for those dresses in the closet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Needles still litter the house, but I’ve managed to put away the decorations and store them back in the closet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “You two have certainly gotten dose,” Mom said the following weekend while she helped me tug the roll-away cot from the overstuffed hall closet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He darted into the closet, dived under the bed, yanked open drawers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The lights are burning here, but darkness is all around me—in the alley, in the attic, in the basement, in every closet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Well, that's easy to do. It's quite a mess. All those stores scattered here and there and on top of one another like a messy closet of hat boxes." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z My removal to the closet is part of the dropping everything. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I am almost as trapped as I was in the instrument closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I sighed sometimes, watching Barack pull the same dark suit out of his closet and head off to work without even needing a comb. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The bottom of our staircase was lined with baskets of miniature candy, and when Mr. Pirzada removed his shoes he did not place them there as he normally did, but inside the closet instead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Dad also scavenged a couple of tables and chairs, and he built some makeshift closets—which were actually kind of nifty—by hanging lengths of pipe from the ceiling with wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Matt sneezed from all the dust in the closet, but Felicia was making too much noise to hear him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He caught glimpses of ropes and chains and other odds and ends as Minho’s flashlight crisscrossed the closet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They rifled through the drawers and opened the closet. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Julie scurried to the coat closet, and came back with a folding cart. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes I caught a glimpse of my father opening a closet that he kept locked at all times, and for a good reason—there were several guns in there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He looked up to the closet shelf, where Nipper was roosting. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He had even insisted on hanging a few items of her clothing in the closet, putting a tube of her lipstick in the medicine cabinet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I walk into my closet and shut the door. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In fifth grade, we hid in Beth’s closet when she had a slumber party. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A tall black woman in a shimmering silver top stepped out from one of the supply closets. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the glow shows that the tiny broom closet is full of brooms, a bucket, and a pair of mops, but is lacking any of the disguises that Adam was hoping for. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long, everyone in the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg— the men out there scouring the continent for hidden libraries, concealed prayer scrolls, closeted impressionist paintings—will be handed rifles and sent into the fire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Neeley got the shoe-shine kit from the closet and proceeded to put a higher shine on his already flawlessly polished shoes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Maribel leaves the closet and I take her place, shutting the door behind me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He ran to the hall closet, yanked open the door, and punched buttons quickly, afraid he’d forget the sequence if he hesitated even a second. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Covering my lamp, I made my way in darkness to the closet near the kitchen where medicines were prepared. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Inside, Ekon was surprised to find that what he’d always assumed was just a broom closet actually contained a set of narrow, inclining stairs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z We’re supposed to clear out of the music room by five, so I take apart the kit and carry it into the storage closet, drum by drum. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I tiptoed into the large closet I have next to my office. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The room felt smaller than usual, like the four of us were in a closet together. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Armpit was surprised by how small the room was—not much bigger than a utility closet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Queen Marie turned to the closet, pulled out a leather valise, and threw it on the table. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Stick opened the closet door to release Bucky, who put on a mock pout. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Then I grabbed my shoes and got in the closet and shut the door. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z His heart rattled against his ribs as he ripped open the door to the old closet and barreled up its narrow steps, on edge. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The books on the book shelf were gone; the padlocked closet stood open, empty; the unfastened lock swung open from the hasp. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After I washed up I looked through my closet at clothes I hadn’t thought about in three months. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He closed the door behind him and went straight to the closet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of me wanted to stay in my closet all day with my notebooks, pencils, and Aunt Florentine’s pillows; it felt safe there and comfortable....I ached everywhere, even behind my eyes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Albert opened a small closet door and took out a bin and brush. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A foot from him was the door of the clothes closet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z On the inside of my closet door, I wrote an epic poem to the new owners telling them the house would always belong to me: Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Once I caught sight of Sahil coming down the hallway and leaped into the janitor’s closet. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The closet was a good place for listening, almost as good as Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When he heard the kitchen door open and shut he went to the closet and listened again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He walked over to a closet, opened it, stuffed the money into a blue tote bag, and offered it to me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Sure that she was alone, George went into the third bedroom, opened the closet door, and surveyed the pile of stuffed animals and assorted toys inside. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The best thing about the closet: no wide-open space. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Waiting in her closet of a room Turtle stared at the white- weighted branches of the maple on the hill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It is quiet in my closet, and the markers smell good. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I take the stairs to the first floor and find Nora in the hallway next to the storage closet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you ever heard of that? Asian chicks are the last stop. If a guy’s in the closet, he goes for an Asian because their bodies are more like boys’.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It fits you perfectly, Josh, she said: You never clean your closet, and that bed of yours is always filled with cookie crumbs and candy wrappers. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Peach left the room, and I went to my closet, where I did my best thinking. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the hall closet I find my suitcase and a pile of bedding. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I went to my bedroom and pulled my suitcase out of my closet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Instead, her dress is on the bed and her closet open, a few gowns hanging roughly, as though she pulled them out before finding them wanting. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Nurse Duckett plucked Yossarian’s arm and whispered to him furtively to meet her in the broom closet outside in the corridor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It didn’t look the same, so she put it in her mother’s closet among the handbags and summer blankets. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I stretch out on the floor of my closet, the bottle in my hand. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I can see her dresses are still hanging in the closet, like little ghosts of her missing her body, and her shoes are still lined up beneath them. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z On the spot, they offered him a job painting closets, where his mistakes would be hidden. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I remove the real scale from its hiding place in my closet and carry it back to the bathroom. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid rummaged in the closet until he found his old boots. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “You have to be quiet,” I warn him as I carry him into the storage closet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I try to read but remember instead how nice it was when Madge didn’t laugh at me when Noah made me jump with his trumpet blast, or when I fell out of the instrument closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The second I opened the closet door, Stradlater's tennis racket--in its wooden press and all--fell right on my head. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I glance at the storage closet again, biting back a giggle. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Herman E. Calloway looked at me sitting on the bed and rushed over to the first little closet door. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She opens a closet and takes out three different-shaped cases—little, medium, and long. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z We opened the closet door and Harry didn’t peep when the light reached him. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z No words can tell the agitation of my spirits occasioned by merely the thought of throwing open that portal and beholding the secrets of the gloomy closet within. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And in the morning, just before she pulls her uniform from the closet, she prays, God, please give me and those people marching another day. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Then he opened a locker that stood in the corner of the closet/office. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z If what you mean is, Mom reorganized my closet brilliantly, don’t water it down by saying, Moms reorganization of my closet was brilliant. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to do my pacing where she isn’t doing hers, but there’s not much room inside a closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It was the size of a broom closet: tall enough to stand in or to sit in, not wide or deep enough to He down in. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I went into my closet and found some computer cleaner and it did the trick. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "That crafts closet is big enough to hold two football players. Just saying," she mutters, and turns back to the video screen. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I point to the empty space next to the closet door. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He stood to go rummage through the storage closet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She sang along: “The corn is as high as an el-e-phant’s eyyye ...” She did not insist on folding all her clothes, but used the closet too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the size of a walk-in closet, tucked off a hallway near the main office, but it had a couch where kids could sit and talk, take a breath, regroup, relax. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s a tiny little room, almost a closet, with dingy walls, a concrete floor, and one lightbulb dangling from the ceiling in a way that’s slightly creepy. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He pushed open the closet door half expecting to find his childhood things. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I ended up fitting as much of Lucy’s stuff as I could in my closet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Alex checked their closet next, rifling through his father’s pants pockets. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I scramble to my feet, riffling through my closet for a clean skirt and pulling off my nightgown without even asking for the privacy I usually demand while changing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The police searched drawers and cabinets and closets, any place where contraband might have been hidden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She stuffed the money in her pocket, went to the closet, and found the hanger full of Melvin’s madness. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z After we picked the lock to my mom’s office closet, my sister would open her gifts and mine too, but not before I left the room. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Grabbing my coat from the front closet, I quietly open the front door and slip outside. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Antonapoulos returned from one of his trips to the closet and his face had a glowering look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The impression was of closeted boredom punctuated by contests and schemes—jumping between the beds, building a camp, half devising a board game, then giving up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You’ve been ignoring me,” she claims as she tosses my coat into the closet, not bothering to put it on a hanger. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He was gone three days, and when he came back, he brought the black trash bag from her bedroom closet. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Her closet, full of clothes, was built into the wall, and the top of her dresser was covered with small perfume bottles, lipsticks, and miniature dolls. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z In hope of getting her out of the house, I helped jam dresses and shoes, skirts and blouses, coats and jackets back into the closet. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Or did you mean Big Rose? That one’s Lolly’s true novia. They going to get married in their storage closet and have big-head, special babies.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “The key to the small door at the back of my closet,” I tell them. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The piece of paper that's taped inside my bedroom closet right now? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The largest closet has another door at the back of it that leads toward the center of the house, so I know it would be a windowless room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The jewelry had disappeared years ago, but the closets still held Miss Lilian’s clothing—skirts, blouses, and dresses long out of style but of fine quality except for moth holes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Luke struggled on through the closet, reaching a stack of blankets at the back. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I slam open my closet door to grab my coat and scarf and gloves, wanting to get away from all of this. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I went down to the discharge closet and picked out some clothes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Then the cat stalked from the closet and crawled under the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her closet was overstuffed, but it was worth it. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Or there’d be stomping over to the closet we shared and sliding clothes back and forth on the closet rod. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He half expected somebody to come stumbling out of one of the closets, a nerd who had snuck in when nobody was looking. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Now she goes to the closet shelves and pulls out a well-worn box of Chutes and Ladders. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She would have tossed it out of the closet just as carelessly as she tossed everything else. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I unpacked my nice dresses, hung them in the closet, and placed some shorts and shirts on a shelf. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A closet door was open in the corner, the interior dark. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But Natalie would never see that picture, because it was tucked away in a shoebox on the very top shelf of Chess’s closet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z There was a creak and a crack, and then the closet door exploded off its hinges. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z To top it off, they found some brightly wrapped candies in a closet and savored the delicate sweet taste. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Next, I pushed Gus’s old jackets and sweaters to the back of the closet and hung up some of my T-shirts so it looked like I had a whole closet of my own. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He knew about the revolver wrapped in a T-shirt and stashed in the back of the closet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She started walking from room to room, opening drawers and closet doors, and I fob lowed her. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z That night at my house, I pulled the sleeping bag out of the closet and spread it on the floor. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z And they were beautiful, better than the sum all of the shoes Susan had in her closet—shiny slippers with a pile of long ribbons on top. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She walks right into the home economics room and unlocks the supply closet. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a loud rustle from the storage closet, followed by a soft chime of music. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Owning expensive sneakers that I can take out into the world and not keep in a closet, scared that I’ll mess them up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z My hands dig around in my closet until I find the insulated winter gear Cinna made for me for recreational use on the Victory Tour. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The closet door glides open, and I lower myself to my knees. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I hurry upstairs to my closet, pocketing the keys Mother handed me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “And hello to you too,” my dad says, coming over to watch all my things pile up in the closet. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “I wonder if we might find a better place for it than rolled up and put away in your closet?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Lupita went out into the hall, blessing the deep-pile carpet that covered the sound of her footsteps, and ran noiselessly to the maid’s closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z And here I am, playing around in my new closet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The fire rushed back into every closet and felt of the clothes hung there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She led me to a walk-in closet in the corner of the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “In the corner, next to the supply closet!” someone shouts. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides the photograph of my mother that lives in a folder in my closet, the bowls are the best things I own. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I could hear life going on atSnowberger’s while I stayed in my closet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Very quietly, he backed out of the closet and shut the door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z My head falls against the inside of the closet door with a thunk. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I glance around as if I’ll magically find the answer in my closet....My eyes meet the vision heart. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z In the bedroom, he opens the large walk-in closet and the inside light comes on. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We went to my closet to wait for something good to happen. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I glance at the storage closet before turning back to Simon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She has saved her dead parents’ letters on the top shelf of her closet, in a large white purse she used to carry in the seventies until the strap broke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They check every room, every closet, every cabinet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ran in the broom closet. Get me a glass of water, wouldja.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I’m going to push it in nextside the hangers at the back of my closet. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Your closet was a mess...and I found these. Did you steal them?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I pick up the wooden easel with one hand, fold up the legs, and bring it over to my closet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z They see a stuffed giraffe in a closet, patches of hide wearing off its back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “What I told you about myself has nothing whatsoever to do with being gay or closeted. I’ve always liked girls. I liked girls when I was a girl.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Upstairs he leaves his coat on until I gesture for him to take it off and hang it in the coat closet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Everyone spreads throughout the building in search of janitor’s closets, per my instruction to find a ladder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I pull on the hem of the vintage X-Files tee I liberated from my mom’s closet years ago. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It’s the same part of me that secretly checks under my bed and in closets after watching a scary movie. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I unlocked the shiny brown door and in a glance saw it all—a ragtag furnished room with a tiny bathroom and shallow closet. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The smell from the litter box wafts out of the hall closet and seems to taunt me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The bedroom opens into a large arched dressing room that connects with a closet that connects with another smaller closet that has a small door at the back, which I can’t open. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z At eleven, I got dressed and fixed my hair in front of the mirror that hung on the door of my closet. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Sure. I’ll move the boxes to a storage closet. And I’ll look into whether a donation company can pick up the rest.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z "He had a walk-in closet behind his room. It's where he really lived. It was filled with all this stuff." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z George dashed up to the bathroom, rescued her bag,and buried it deep inside her closet, under the toys and stuffed animals. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A return to clay and plaster followed, and ghostly casts of her acquaintances haunted corners of the house, or tumbled off closet shelves onto people’s heads. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Refusing to unwrap the package in his presence, or even seem interested in the contents, they carried it, like a coat in need of a closet, to some other part of the house. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z This meant tackling the garage, closets, the storage shed in the backyard. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The cat padded over to the closet and sat, peering at Petey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I find a white T-shirt in my closet and I draw an eagle on it with a permanent marker. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I yell before running into my closet and slamming the door as hard as I can. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The bedroom had a closet too, so I started with that. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She popped back into the closet, mumbling to herself, then popped back out. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Next to the desk is a tiny round metal sink; in the corner is a closet full of shelves with a clear plastic curtain serving as a door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Then I grabbed the other sneaker and chased him behind the closet. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z From the back of the closet, she pulled her old duffel bag and took the quilt from her bed, a few old blankets. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were only two pairs of pants and three shirts in his closet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel said, ‘‘You can wash in there,” indicating a small room hardly bigger than a closet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I still have that postcard in my keepsake box in the back of my closet. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Trunks, chairs, a small end table, and a cardboard “wardrobe” closet were placed around the walls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Gulping down my tea, I find the servant garb in the back of my closet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On the coffee table, stacks of our parents’ old photos from Metias’s bedroom closet are strewn across the glass. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I don’t have to help with the dishes, so I go upstairs and sit in my closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The above took place in what was essentially a storage closet where a small crew of us had been relegated to meet for a group assignment. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She slipped out of bed, tiptoed into her closet, and knelt beside the hole. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There had been bottled water in one of the closets. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I leave the second egg half eaten, hurry to the closet for my cloak, and already I can hear feet on the stairs and the voices calling. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Quietly, ever so quietly, he slips a knife from the kitchen drawer, thrusts it into the hall closet lock, jabs it hard, upward, once, jimmies open the door. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z There are two sets of barbells, a burlap sack of sand, a jump rope with red wooden handles, and a pear-shaped leather punching bag nailed to the closet ceiling. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes the hat back to his apartment, hiding it at the back of his closet even though Moushumi has never been there. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I pictured him waking up in the morning, staring at his closet, and thinking, Hmm . . . hmm . . . how about a white shirt and a black tie? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Sissy threw Katie into another spasm of giggles by mumbling from the closet that the tenants had a nerve raising such a racket when there was a sick woman in the house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He had an icebox in the closet where he kept bottles of cold beer and fruit drinks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” said Hazel, hanging her jacket in the front closet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z For no apparent reason a cat’s fur may rise on its back as it peers into a dark closet, just as you or I may get goose bumps from phantoms we neither see nor hear. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Mr. Lyte’s closeted behind that door with two of his sea captains. When they leave, you just walk in.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard and I figured out a while ago that the more stuff Mom swipes from the office supply closet, the more she’s hating work. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z That night, I put on my white gloves, went to the garbage can in Dad’s closet, and opened the bag that I’d thrown all of the pieces of the vase into. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As soon as everyone sees Carlos walk out of the closet with Ziggy, they cheer. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z In my closet, on the top shelf behind stacks of books and shirts, I find Dad’s dollhouse. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Maybe you and Dad can try again— Suddenly the door of the utility closet flew open, and the weight on Roy’s chest seemed to vaporize. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved in and out of the closet, dropping this and that into the suitcase, not bothering to fold them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried looking in my dad’s closet for something when Carmen knocked at the door. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Technically, my father is The Dude from the movie The Big Lebowski, only he’s totally in the closet. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Daisy was about my mom’s size, so we decided to raid her closet, and as we tried to find the least Momish top and jeans combo available, Daisy talked. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z How we could somehow cheat and either make a fistful of cash or a closet full of clothes suddenly appear. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z It was basically a closet full of cat, dog, hamster, and fish food, leashes, flea powders, and a few toys like bones and rubber fire hydrants that make squeaky noises. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Two nights before the first communion, Father Antonio Isabel closeted himself with him in the sacristy to hear his confession with the help of a dictionary of sins. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I have very rich friends, you know. Some of them have two or three dozen furs gathering dust in a closet.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark of a childhood closet, the odor of gasoline she never liked, the feel of something dangerous pawing at her softly to see what she would do. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He walks toward a closed door that we passed already, and into a supply closet. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I cross the floor slowly, as if that same someone might jump out, and open the door to my closet, half expecting it to lead into the real version of my room, the right one. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His bedroom—he finally had his own room!—was about the size of a closet in Benji’s house, but Felix never complained, because the landlord allowed pets. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I was about to crack a joke about her being a closeted creeper when I saw her face. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A closet door cut off one corner, and Emily was surprised to see the inside was a triangle instead of the expected square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Leaving the bowl, she hunted through the closets again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A man in a khaki uniform digs in a storage closet. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z So Ishmael loaded the cookstove with firewood and hung his coat in the hall closet. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sierra gasped and spun, throwing her back against the closet. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Before he turns on his PlayStation, Sneaky goes to his closet, digs around, and comes back with a bag of Doritos. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I went to the closet, checked the shelf, checked the floor. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z In the closet they were on hangers; in the drawers they were folded flat, or wound tightly like thick scrolls. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But, as a kid, I never fit into the costumes and was always left with whatever we could scour from my mom’s and Lucy’s closets. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I went through my closet and threw out anything white. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Soaking from the rain, without saying a word, they searched the house room by room, closet by closet, from parlor to pantry. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I’ve barely given a speck of brain space to her, even after what happened between us in the closet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My mom was so scattered, just barely getting to her house showings on time, always rummaging around in cabinets and closets for something she couldn’t find. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were two doors in here, which made me think he had his own bathroom, and a maybe a walk-in closet. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The two of them went to work immediately in the supply closet, trying to figure out how much food we could carry with us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Peering inside, I realize it’s a storage closet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Once, at a party at Sally and Oliver’s, they’d wandered off to make quick, giddy love in Sally’s walk- in closet, piles of her sweaters looming over them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I hold my hands up at the closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Hanako hid the purple kimono in the closet, in her mother’s empty suitcase. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She opens up a silver closet the size of my living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He didn't care if you'd packed something or not and had it way in the top of the closet. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Ma got up from the bed and walked over to the closet with all her suitcases. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And when footsteps fell within the room—several songs after he entered the room—I pressed my back against the closet wall…waiting. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z My old street clothes were buried somewhere in the closet, collecting dust. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She went to her grandparents’ closet and slid the paper door to the side, just suddenly overcome with curiosity about their lives. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I wash up, then look through my closet for some jeans or something. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He opens the closet, wondering if he has it in him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Everyone shielded their eyes, and a few people in the hallway let out cries of alarm, but Richard ignored them all and took long strides toward the gaping maw of the closet. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Somehow Jackson gets cuffs on him, but it only makes him wilder and they’re forced to lock him in a closet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Okay. There are towels for you in the closet.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z "When the children were small. This closet was inefficient—deep and sloping—so I asked if he would close off part of it for a pantry and have the other part for storage." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Cat and Kittens had retreated to their closet, peering out at the giant shaggy creature. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The bedroom the girls share has a long closet down one side of it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I pack everything back in her bag and stick it in my closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She set the table up just outside the house, then pulled boxes of candy from a small closet right by the front door, where most people would hang their coats. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The closets form the same odd tunneling arrangement as mine does. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “I saw him, Lily,” I said quietly while she searched in the closet for something to wear. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He just got up from bed and banged the closet door open, tore off his T-shirt, flung it on the ground, and got dressed. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I went to the front closet and found my jacket. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The CSS Birmingham captains quarters were about the size of a walk-in closet, but still much bigger than any other room on board. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And hiding wine in the closet, she almost added, but thought better of it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Then she turned to smile at George, but George had turned her head to face the closet, shielding her eyes from view with her hand. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I sprang up and peeped under both doors, the one I’d entered and another that probably was a closet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, Saturday, just before sunrise, I heard my father pull his suitcase from his closet. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Being in the closet was my only escape. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I get up, feet hitting the cool wood floor, and walk over to my closet door. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She had a refrigerator in her room, in the closet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Go upstairs and get my other shoes. They’re in the hall closet. If Bri’s up, tell her . . .” He tried to come up with a reason why he’d need a different pair of shoes. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Wait until I see if I can take one from the job. I think I saw some when I was going through the closets yesterday.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He went into the closet and the planks squeaked; he stopped. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d changed out of his work clothes, I noticed, and was wearing a white linen blazer that looked as if it’d come straight out of the Miami Vice costume closet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Besides, he owes me. He almost got squashed in a closet today—isn’t that right, cowgirl?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She rifles through her closet: the turquoise silk blouse with red buttons, the pale pink flowered dress with a ruffled hem. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There’s one in the closet of every bedroom. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I tiptoed to the closet, got a blanket, and placed it over his legs. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z First we found a linen closet in the hospital corridor where Buddy took out a white mask for me to wear and some gauze. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She picked up the rags and sacks and boxes and bags that Granny had tossed out of the closet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Makes our small apartment feel like a closet. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z I get the broom from the closet and start sweeping. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z A door opened at the other end of the room and Colonel Cathcart stepped into the basement as though from a closet. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I had never considered what she was doing those last minutes of her life, why she was in the closet, what they had fought about. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish going into that closet with Brian was the worst of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She shut the closet door and leaned against it, dressed in skinny jeans and a dolman sleeved indigo blue top that showed her belly button. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She arranged and rearranged her clothing at every possible opportunity, admiring the hangers and the shelving in the shallow closet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Go to the first door and open it. When we’re inside, we’re going to the closet. There’s a passageway through there.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My closet is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z When her row was called, George grabbed her book bag and got away from the other kids at the closet as quickly as she could. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Hopefully, Luke paused in his burrowing into the Talbots' closet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Later that night, he’d rummaged in his closet, found an old sketchbook, some pencils. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z My mom likes to raid the theater wardrobe closet at school. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I immediately run to the back of the closet and down the stairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Their possessions would gradually find their way out of their moving containers and be put away—clothes would move to closets after they were worn and washed, that sort of thing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you drape it over the rod in the hall closet?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z And if he said he meant to do something—like keep his corn whiskey in your closet or marry Miss Love Simpson—if you couldn’t say yessir, you sure-dog didn’t say no sir. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the closet was a pile of towels. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I wanted to know if it was under the couch or high up in the closet where I couldn’t reach yet. He didn’t say that ‘love is within’ or ‘love is all around you.’ They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She searches in the supply closet for a stapler, and when she fails to find one, goes instinctively to Alice’s desk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Justin surveys the row of hats lined up on my closet shelf. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Those are closets for telling the priests your sins. You go in there and kneel down and tell all the sins you committed during the past week.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I have rooms there now—a vast sitting area, a bedroom behind latching double doors, and a dressing area with empty closets. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “No, but I keep him in my closet in case I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep,” I said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z She has six identical outfits in the closet, and two more pair of shoes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles went into a little anteroom, no bigger than a closet, and I heard the sound of running water. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A few of the peepholes looked into dark closets like the one in the music room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s when my second pair of gloves, kindergarten string, safety pins and all, disappeared out of the closet at school. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But this time they could hear her upstairs, opening and closing her drawers, moving back and forth from the bed to the closet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I am so glad to be on the other side of the instrument closet door. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It’s like a greatest hits of his closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was so creepy, I hid it in Charlie's closet until I was ready to wrap it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Once, Mother found a whole shelf of matchboxes in his closet, stacked by year. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He could take something very jazzy, like "Tin Roof Blues," and whistle it so nice and easy--right while he was hanging stuff up in the closet--that it could kill you. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I stood right next to the closet for a while but he came out the other side and ran up the wall near the ceiling where he thought I couldn’t get him. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I’m carrying a backpack that I found in our coat closet, one of my dad’s extra ones. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Now he was closeted there either loafing or thinking because I didn’t hear his typewriter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I lighted the gas mantle lamp, stuffed the debris in a little closet, and put on water for coffee. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai, somewhat regretfully, closed the bird cage and put it into a closet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Somehow we made it to the janitors’ closet. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z From deep inside the closet, Luke heard someone snicker. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Wiggles. I put him in the back of the closet. I couldn’t look at him after that. He was a bad, bad dinosaur. What if he finds me? What if he finds me here?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Only a few shirts hang in the closet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He went through the bureaus and the closets. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I go to the closet and take the suitcase out. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I glanced at the closet of old things. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Ophie looked into the closet, which was deep and carried a sickly sweet scent. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I think of all the other dresses hanging in my closet, waiting to be worn, the slippers waiting to be danced in. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His stomach lurched and turned over, and he sat frozen in the dark closet, with only the sound of his air and the thud of his heart. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gilly, run up to my room and look in the back of the closet, will you? There’s a dozen or more on a coat hanger.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z At exactly twelve noon, I pulled out my blue suit from the closet, the suit that I had worn to Mike Costello’s funeral. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All these drawings make the closet seem smaller. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Or the guys sneak into his room at night, as they did before, and one of them...opens the closet door. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He has a secret layer of drawers behind his closet that he opens with a clicker like a garage door. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until 1 A.M. that we had our uniforms prepared, toiletries displayed on our tiny closet shelves, and extra stuff stashed away in lockers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He scraped out a can of cat food onto a plate and set the plate by the closet door. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I wanted to leave my coat in the closet. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Stroud had already called the police, who I guess had already called Eastham Middle, as if Joseph might be hiding out in the janitor’s closet or something. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The first challenge is getting us all into the storage closet without being seen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The priest runs to his closet and pulls one out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z This closet is abandoned—it has no purpose, no name. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I want to tell her I’d spend the night at school hanging upside down in the closet if I could just read. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Behind that window, a bedroom and a closet with accordion doors where Hannah, on the night I kissed her, disappeared. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I look down to make sure I don’t have a tent in my pants as she takes my hand and we emerge from the closet like two unsteady cubs from a hibernation den. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She searched through the back of the closet and slipped on the high heels with the tiny buckles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I pull my backpack out of my closet and stuff a change of clothes in it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I fold it up and shove it into the back of my closet, tossing the pen in after it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Mom’s been asking her to clean out her closet for months. You’re lucky—there’s some really good stuff in there. I guess.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Homes unlocks the closet and heaves an unconscious Peeta over his shoulder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He had a closet in his room, fitted up for the purpose, which smelt of the scented soap like a perfumer’s shop. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Lander lived in a broom closet; no one would room with him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Their marriage bed was a narrow cot that was hidden in the dining-room closet during the day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She sets down her briefcase, throws her black bag into the closet up front, slaps her hands together like giant paddles, and tells everybody to get quiet. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I cross off this day with a black “X” on the calendar that covers my closet door, and then I curl up on my bed, propped against my pillows, books spread across the comforter. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Unsure of where to go, they bump into one another a few times and then closet themselves in the bathroom. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z All it took to unleash it was her thinking of the unfinished crib in the toolshed or the suede coat in Rasheed’s closet. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I'm out of bed now, and I've pulled off my boxers and tossed them into the open closet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Guess who was standing there, looking somewhat taken aback by the blood- drooling, shaved-headed madman in the closet? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two dozen tightly rolled, never-used silk umbrellas in that closet; prizes she had won. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side, there’s a small stove and a refrigerator that looks more like a box, and a closet that is barely the size of my mom’s suitcase. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I walk around, opening the closet door and squinting through the window to the fire escape. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I went into my bedroom and ran my hand over my uniform hanging in the closet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She hangs the gown on my closet door, and I lay the blouse and sweater over my desk chair. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I forced myself not to take any pictures—it was Tucker; Tucker was not a hallucination, even if he was hanging out in a janitors’ closet—and ducked into the nearest bathroom to change. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He closeted himself with her father in the study. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I pull the sheets off the sofa and toss them into his closet. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He opens his closet and pulls out a dark blue blazer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Each of the two bedrooms contained two single beds, a chair, a chest of drawers, and a clothes closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Piles of books and papers were stacked up wherever they would fit: on the desk, on the bookcases, in shoe boxes above the bookcases, on top of the TV, pouring out of the open closet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z One night she pulled a small memory box from the top of her closet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z One of Abuela’s cousins, who still lives in their old house, had found them at the back of a closet where Abuela had hidden them before she left. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I go into Dad’s bedroom closet, where he crammed all the drawing supplies that used to be in his home office, behind our old kitchen. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “No more secrets,” said Grace when the group was safely inside Mr. Lyons’s office, the converted custodian’s closet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Two sets of cotton sheets are taken from the linen closet and washed, then hung to dry on the long clothesline beside the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I take it to my closet and hide it inside my cedar art chest. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I still have it, on the top shelf of my closet, in the very back. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He went to the closet and rummaged in the back, the old overcoats and bagged dresses inside muffling his voice. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hear the door to the closet open and he leads me forward a few steps. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I would try my costume on a dozen times each October, and all through November, I obsessively fantasized about pulling it out of my closet one more time. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I usually go inside my closet to cry so my parents don’t hear me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She leaps from the chair, bumps the desk, phone falls to the floor—bonus!—and runs into her closet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “That you’re a fairy. A queer. Living in the closet, hiding away.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance through my closet, and decide it’s too hot to try and instead opt for gym shorts and an old T-shirt from one of my mom’s pageants. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Things out of place, especially — a canister swivelled out from the wall, an umbrella come partly open in the closet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then why did I find all those girls’ magazines in your closet?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A thumping and rattling came from inside the closet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was the room of a neat girl with nothing to hide, or so it seemed until I found a hatbox just inside the closet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They dashed back and found him in the closet with April’s pin-box. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I was getting ready to cross back from the bathroom to the closet to bed when I heard someone moving around in the yard. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “On the walls. In the closet. Look around the house,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z This is what his face must’ve looked like when he was inside that storage closet all alone hour after hour. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Her mom opened the closet and took out a stack of towels and a laundry basket full of socks. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A microscope sat on a table in the closet, and there was a chair, and from the wall hung an air hose. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah wasn’t even sure where the closet was that held her clothes, her real clothes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Eunjoo decided to wash all their clothing, so they raided the closets for large T-shirts that they wore while they washed everything. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I also found out that there are about 70,571 hotel rooms, and most rooms have a main lock, a bathroom lock, a closet lock, and a lock to the minibar. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then she hurries to the back of the room, grabs a bag from the closet, and ushers us out the door. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z From the dark of the closet Carlos has heard tones, not content, known presences, not personalities. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Only the bedrooms, water closet, and winter parlor were fully enclosed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But you could use a hook, in the closet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed one of our day care teachers opening the closet where our bright blue “Kids R Kids” T-shirts were neatly folded on a shelf. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There is a closet in the bathroom where the clothes hamper is, and he likes to take out all the clothes and look at them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z When he was younger he was always the kid who thought there were monsters in the closet. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z They aren’t in my mom’s closet or the bread box either. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexandra went to the closet and dragged out the vacuum cleaner. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z At three on the dot, I went to the coat closet and grabbed my knapsack to go home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I think of the littlest girl finding Dee, my old doll, in the closet. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Thanks, Tucker. What are you doing in the janitors’ closet?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z When I get home, I open the door to my closet and walk inside. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Got it right in there in the closet now, for my lesson tonight.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With husband and children now far away, her living space shrunk from a spacious house to a single room, her suitcase now her closet, Dorothy’s daily existence was reduced to its simplest elements. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And nothing in my closet is going to work. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He walks over to what I thought was an enormous closet, grips the two handles near the top and pulls to reveal a bed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That morning I’d peeked in their bedroom closet—her clothes were still hanging there. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Even though Dad’s coffin was empty, his closet was full. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not. I was in the supply closet. I missed all the hubbub,” she replies. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Another’s brother had been starved to death in a closet. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I felt like Anne Frank in her attic, except the Nazis were roaming outside her attic and my parents were outside the closet door. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I kick the closet door shut and hurry into the bathroom. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z When she got home, she kissed her grandmother’s cheek, walked up the stairs to her room, and tossed her book bag into the bottom of her closet. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He walks in with his shoes on instead of changing into a pair of flip-flops that his parents keep in the hall closet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But finally he found it hidden in her closet. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “Please. I was trying to use the water closet. Now if you'll excuse me.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then one of them said, Let’s go see Mami’s bear, which is the way they refer to their mother’s fur coat hanging in this closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Spoon rushed us over to a janitor’s closet on the lower level. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Her belongings, all that she brought with her from the Thibodeaus’, fill a scant three shelves in the closet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I hadn’t even thought twice about them until I was cleaning stuff out of my closet last week. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Some clothes are in the closet on wire hangers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Seven looked around the basement and found the closet door from the memory. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The books were in the back of the closet where I threw them and I got them out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z She put the whole works in the toe of a stocking, pushed the wad into a rubber overshoe, and stood it with its fellow in the back of her closet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It bounces off the wall and lands on the floor by the closet. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z John took extra long coming back, and I could hear him getting his roller skates out of the closet in the back room where all the pigs were. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z How long have I been in the instrument closet? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Bed—without canopy—dresser, closet, electric light, television, radio, electric clock, books. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I ease the squeaking closet door shut, all but a sliver—I'm too afraid of the clicking sound to close it all the way. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Each wide-open empty bedroom in the house had a whole wall of built-in wooden cupboards and closets and a private sunporch. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At first she was wildly industrious, cleaning out closets and scrubbing the insides of kitchen cupboards and scraping the shelves of the refrigerator, rinsing out the vegetable bins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Clayton hurled the porkpie hat high up on a shelf in his closet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I grabbed my clothes from the closet and walked down the long hallway to the bathroom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “A dainty spot,” he said plummily, “fit for two such charming ladies; I shall, if you like, save you the trouble of glancing into the closet and under the bed.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z By this time Papa had unearthed the box of Christmas decorations from the depths of the hallway closet. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I headed to the kitchen and stopped at the closet with the aprons. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Because his bed is stacked with clothes and books, he drags a comforter out of his closet and we lie on the floor, the blanket wrapped around us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She left the door and went to put the sheets away in the linen closet next to the bathroom. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He ran to his room and straight to his closet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Fred stops at a small closet and grabs a couple of ice packs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Often the big Greek would lumber to the closet and pour out drinks of gin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I had borrowed Ma’s tape measurer from her closet so we could keep track of our towers’ heights. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “They go on to lead unextraordinary lives in a closet somewhere.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If he crooked his elbows and knees, he reminded people of one of the wall spiders that lurked in dark closets. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I did pick her coat off the floor and hang it on a sturdy wooden hanger in the front hall closet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The girl hurried across the room and opened the closet door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Did you talk to Dad before — He told us to stay out of his closet. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z I shut myself in the closet to get eye level with my giant heart. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Everyone jeers and cheers and generally acts lame as they get up and walk into the closet with we-are-so-beyond-this looks on their faces. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I decided on the L-shape, stood back, adjusted the angle, and then went to get the sheets out of the bathroom closet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I check under the bed and in the closet, and then we move downstairs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Which makes me think of the holiday concert and my slide fail and the locked closet, and I blink hard to make the memories stop. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Mom helps me wrap it in tissue, inside a gift bag we found in the closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He went to a closet and returned with an armful of magazines. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama’s right that this closet had become a mess; some of these papers are years old. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Mom finds me sleeping in my bedroom closet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes you can believe the rumors and chitchat,” the older man says as they slosh through the water of the passageway outside the storage closet where they encountered the armed thugs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The one in the closet or the one here on the forest floor? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Back in the hallway, I open the linen closet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z People began getting in line to go into one of Aaron’s book-filled closets. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It seemed like a hundred years ago that Dana Matherson had tried to strangle him inside the janitor’s closet, but it had happened only that afternoon. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But today when I ask Mom for a box to put my dreadlocks in, she tells me to take one of her Sunday hat boxes from the top shelf of her closet. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z But apart from the spider she was alone in the closet in the pitch dark. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He pulled an extra blanket out of the closet and tucked it around her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of going to school, I go back upstairs and into my closet, because if I leave, I will die. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I ran over to my closet and threw open the doors. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It would have been easy to give in and go to some storage closet, to kiss him and forget about all the yesterdays and tomorrows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My father opened a closet one day and was startled to find me inside, reading a novel. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Aimee picked a scarf from the ones hanging on the inside of her mother’s closet door. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The place made Grand Central Station look like a broom closet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I started to take off my coat and hang it up in the foyer closet, but that closet's full of hangers that rattle like madmen when you open the door, so I left it on. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I could only think back to that closet, hiding inside it with a pile of jackets surrounding me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He could barely button one of the buttons on the front, so he dejectedly hung it back in the closet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My desire to clean up skeletons in Joshua’s closet left Francis almost cold. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Ben was so afraid that Richie would send him to the basement early that he was sitting in the bedroom closet, playing with his cars. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “Someone signed for the package. What did your mom do, shove it in a closet without opening it?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I hear pounding—the fists are at it again, hitting the closet door—but I turn and peer through the dark at the panel behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z At home I could try to put my monster in my bedroom closet and slam the door. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Instead I scooped it off the floor and put the box on the top shelf of my closet and put five towels on top of it so I couldn’t see it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She got up from the bed and pulled the closet door wider. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Don’t open that closet, though,” she says, laughing. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He pulled Maria to the closet, pressed the hidden switch and heard her gasp as the secret passageway opened. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From the closet, which was half full of clothes, he pulled out a cigar box and several dark blue folders. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He went into the closet and brought out a bottle of wine and two glasses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I dropped my books on my bed, took my spare jacket from the closet, and went to the window. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She walks to the supply closet, her shoes squeaking on the polished floor. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z She discovered that Enoch loved baseball, and she saw the photo of Leanne Washington holding a pie when it was still hanging in the church reception hall, not hidden in a dark, dusty closet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Before Luke had a chance to move, Jen’s dad had picked him up and thrust him into the closet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I lift the box out of the closet like a fragile piece of glass. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I yanked my suitcase from the closet and opened it on my bed. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The closet door opens, and then Carlos hears her breathing close by on the other side of the wall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Only the servants used this stair, for the fourth floor held only servants’ quarters, storage closets for linens and out-of-season clothes, sewing rooms, and so forth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Stick yanked open the closet door, his elbow jabbing near the tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I went to my closet and grabbed one of my spare bows. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a closet full of wicker baskets of all sizes that she fills up with groceries for people in need. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There’s only one spot in Lola’s house that I can call my own: the bedroom closet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The bags of Harley-Davidson memorabilia were stuffed in our closet behind a pile of board games. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We looked all around the house—under the table, in the dark corners of the closets, in the toolbox, even outside in the trash cans. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Murphy gives me something new nearly every day—a skirt she says she found in a closet, a woolen hat, a camel-colored coat, a periwinkle scarf and matching mittens. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He powered on his computer and brought up iTunes to play some Prince while he went through his closet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “We don’t have closets in this classroom,” Bridge’s teacher said, after clapping his hands for attention. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I mean, you'd open a closet door, and there, in the corner behind your shoes, would sit a jar of something wicked that you weren't supposed to touch. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But then Akira blurted out, “We had so much fun today! We stole some wheat and hid it in the hole in the closet!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mom was taking Dovie Mansfield’s coat and I caught her checking the label before hanging it in the hall closet. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z There were empty barrels all around, in and out of closets, which Kendra figured must be used for catching milk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We found our uniforms—a gray suit for me and a white lab coat for Elsie—waiting for us in our closet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I listened to my flip-flops flap against my heels as I walked to my closet, where I listened to the rain falling while I got dressed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She’s always giving him my stuff, even when I hide it in the top of the closet. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Let’s go set some skeletons free from some closets.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Chas began unpacking, stuffing his folded clothes into the cubbies stacked like a ladder along one side of our shared closet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Intoxicated by the uncontained torrent of relief, Aureliano Segundo broke the glass on the china closet and piece by piece, without hurrying, he took out the chinaware and shattered it on the floor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z His dad kept them in the shoe box behind a suitcase in the back of a closet. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Thomas Malthus had been a curate at the Okewood Chapel in Surrey by daytime, but he was a closet economist by night. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It would be satisfying to a closet sniper, this job, because he could spend long hours playing out scenarios of whom he might have to fire at, with which weapon, and under what circumstance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A closet was turned into a solitary confinement cell. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven took her outfit into the large closet in her room, leaving Valley to change in the room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He hates to do laundry and has started to borrow from my mom’s closet when he’s running low on clean clothes. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Before Grandma could say anything, I grabbed the umbrella from the holder in the closet and opened the front door. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He went into the house to check on Calamity and the kittens, kittens he found sleeping in a messy, boneless heap at the bottom of his closet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I have the bigger closet by a long shot. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The viola is kept in the coat closet, and Cordelia takes it out and shows it to us, lying there mysterious and important in its velvet-lined case. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She had left the blue dress hanging in the closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Only when we went to pack up Minerva’s things for her move, did I remember you stashed under the closet floorboards. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Manuel, I get an image of him in a closet and of big boots kicking him. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I was staring up at the ceiling, half buried under the covers, when a figure seemed to peel itself out from the shadows of the closet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Easy-peasy, she had thought, and then gone upstairs to rummage through her mom’s closet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I look past my messy closet — Open closet doors Carefully. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Four shirts and four pairs of pants hang in the first closet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He opened the closet, and there was a library card catalogue inside. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We folded our clothes and returned the towels to the closet. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z They’re in a small room—looks to be an old storage closet from when this part of the system was still being used, back in the old subway days. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The Russians go into the closet, and they hear the handles of mops being kicked drunk- enly and a crate of dictionaries go thudding down the stairs, and then someone rattles the knob. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a framed paint-by-number of the three wise men, against a black velvet background, tucked in the linen closet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Imagine how scared he was in your closet!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She’s still sitting on the top shelf of my closet with a few other precious memories. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In my closet, I have a bag of old stuffed animals. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “They threw the closet out, General. That was that crash we heard when we thought they were coming in to kill us.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She tried to crawl into the narrow crowded closet to nail it down but her voluminous nightgown got her tangled up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My closet consists entirely of white T-shirts and blue jeans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z What a dumb idea, sitting in a closet like this. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He had gone home for some minor matter on the night that Mr, Brown unleashed the storm, and Fernanda tried to help him with a half-blown-out umbrella that she found in a closet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Jess lay on her bed and looked through the shoe box of memories she kept on the top shelf of her closet. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Because standing there, in the storage closet, looking down at me? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He shoved the lock box back into Jessie's closet and the key back into the fake pack of gum. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Palmer finding his pigeon roosting in the closet every night after dinner. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z At last, I was conveyed into the closet where I should play, the door being left open but a small space so that the guests could hear the music. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Just looking. Most museums have too much stuff to have all of it hanging. So if it’s not hanging, it’s got to be stuck in a closet.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I propped myself against my closet wall with the two feather pillows that smelled like lavender and that had belonged to Great-great-aunt Florentine. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Second grade: Jupe was seven and I was eight, and I came into her room one day and found her sobbing in her closet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z While I served out the pie and poured me some sweetmilk from the pitcher on the table, Grandpa slipped into our company room closet for you-know-what. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And since Dell's bureau and closet are empty, Pattie borrows his car and brings over more things from the nail salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He slipped out of the closet, leaving dusty footprints across the carpet, and was scolded by Celia when she saw the state of his clothes and hair. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When there was lightning, she went in a dark closet and held her ears. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Screams hushed to whimpers and the trembling guests crawled out from under tables and peered out of closets. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z James pushed back a curtain concealing a closet filled with a desk and computers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A winter during which Tessie’s worries about her children immobilized her, so that she failed to return Christmas presents that didn’t fit, and merely put them in the closet, without getting a refund. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Like, here is the bathroom; the clothes closet is here; and these are my kids, Frieda and Claudia; watch out for this window; it don’t open all the way. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Other games and puzzles entered the household, and the chess set, with some pawns missing, was stored in a closet. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He looked past the water fountain and noticed that the door to the janitor’s closet was ajar. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z We just retrieved a bag from a mop closet down the hall—she was ready for this. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z This time it was an old Saturday Evening Post she’d found in the bottom of Mother’s closet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a sitting room, a bedroom, and a small kitchen with a water closet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She hung up my coat in the hall closet, and I sort of brushed my hair back with my hand. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling’s expressions were like a closet of pressed gray suits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Finally they made it into the old custodian’s closet, Mr. Lyons’s office. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z In the hall closet I found an old cloth raincoat of my father’s. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z "We need two orange juices," I said, thumbing through the juices like I was looking for a shirt in the coldest closet ever. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He went inside his room, opened the closet, and grabbed the porkpie hat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Last night, as we lay on our mats in the closet, Mami started telling me stories about growing up on a sugar estate where her father was the resident doctor. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I grab her coat from the closet and throw it on. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Inside the small closet behind the two empty beds hangs two pairs of black pants, two neatly pressed white blouses, and polished black shoes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It felt like a promise, a present someone had shown her, then stowed away on a high closet shelf for later. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My perfect dress would just gather dust in the closet. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I still haven’t emptied your mother’s clothing out of our closet. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I never could figure why Papa and Mama let him keep his quart jars of moonshine in the closet in our company room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We had no time to pick it up or cross over to the bathroom closets, so we just backed in among the clothes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z My mother inspects the bedroom she used to share with Tfa Felicia, vacant now except for a frilly party dress hanging in the closet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the bedroom is a gray sitting room she treats as a closet, her shoes and handbags and clothes scattered across the floor, piled on a fainting couch, spilling over the backs of chairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Nothing behind the cabinets or in the one closet or beneath the window drapes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Kendra retrieved an umbrella from the hall closet and joined Lena in the garden. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And when it was dry, I stuffed it in the corner of my closet, underneath some old jeans I’d stopped wearing two years ago. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the hall, the door to the service closet hung partly open, providing a coy glimpse of the reeking horror within. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Papers are scattered everywhere; my books and pencils have been emptied out of my schoolbag; even the diary I stashed away months ago on a shelf in the closet has been hurled near the door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I closed the closet door, and that’s when I noticed the trombone resting against the wall. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Otherwise, we have to stay in the closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Was he roosting warmly in another closet in another town? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I know I said I wanted a place to escape, but I don’t want to hang out in a closet full of cleaning stuff. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z At the thought of my father, my attention goes to my closet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Hermione seized Harry’s arm and dragged him across the hall to the door of a broom closet; she opened it, pushed him inside among the buckets and mops, then slammed the door behind them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She spun, felt the moment push her along, guide her steps, and then caught a glimpse of herself in the full-length mirror hanging on her closet door. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z We had a closet full of colorful dresses. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The quarters he shared with Ser Jorah were a cabin only by courtesy; the dank, dark, foul-smelling closet had barely enough space to hang a pair of sleeping hammocks, one above the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The desk drawers, the closets, the shelves...anything connected to the dead man’s work had been taken. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z That was the rule; half of any money they got from anywhere went into the tin-can bank that was nailed to the floor in the darkest corner of the closet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what she was scared of but she was adamant that she wouldn’t go, in the way little children are adamant that there might be something hiding in the closet in the dark. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were taken to a small closet without enough space to lie down. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia walked in and opened her closet door, then let her robe slip off. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Five o’clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January, when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and nearly dressed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In my closet there are a few shirts and a few pairs of pants and a suit and a tie for church. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the most grown-up thing Finn had ever done, that he kept standing there peering into Mom’s closet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I stick it back in the closet and find myself wondering what Adam would think of it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I scan my closet for a hiding place. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “You’re the head of the art club, right? You’ve got the key to that supply closet. Lots of paint in there—including spray paint.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I go through her closet and pick the outfit that most looks like something Rhiannon would wear; I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I think of Finch and Amanda, and then I look at the closet door, where you can still see the thumbtack holes from my calendar. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Thorn opened a closet door and threw her hands over her mouth in shock, though they could not see what she was seeing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Jefferson defended himself by claiming that his consultations with Bache were not clandestine meetings; he had met with Bache many times, true enough, but he was not, as the Federalists charged, “closeted” with him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And when I collapsed into the closet, a pile of jackets on the floor caught me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Tessie never stopped complaining about the lack of closet space and the impractical layout, but gradually, thanks to a touch of claustrophobia, she grew to appreciate Middlesex’s glass walls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In each was a narrow, lumpy bed, a slim dresser rammed up close to the bed, and a closet. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem like much could be missing from that closet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Their possessions would gradually find their way out of their moving containers and be put away—clothes would move to closets after they were worn and washed, that sort of thing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Where is my white blouse? Phoebe, have you seen—? I could have sworn—!” She pulled things out of her closet and flung them on the bed. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Then she ran to the closet and pulled all those fine dresses from the hangers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z This has to be karmic retribution for the last time I was in a closet I shouldn’t have been in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “From the nineteen sixties. You know—the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mr. Lyons’s grandfather was the custodian back then and told him all about it. The entrance is in the custodian’s closet.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It was splattered with bits of rotted food, so rank we kept it shut away in a closet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Everyone pitches in, and it helps to have a cleaning supply closet right upstairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Finding the revolver Jimmy kept wrapped in a T-shirt in the back of his closet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I opened the closet and took down the hanger that four of Big Ma’s belts swung from. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Watch out for Leon too, who has a habit of following his female coworkers into service closets. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s just an old unused supply closet.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Waiting for the closet doors to be torn open. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She took in the heavy, green drapes, the pairs of polished shoes lined up neatly along the wall, the closet door, where the gray paint had chipped and showed the wood beneath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Her suitcases were in the closet, as were her clothes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You see the poster on Miss Jupiter’s closet? That right there is Freddie Mercury,” Britain goes on. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “You’ve had a lot of closeted gay guys go after you?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You think about dark closets, madmen, murderers under the bed, all those childhood fears. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We turn off the lights and sneak back out of the Hideout, checking the hallway outside the storage closet first to make sure nobody is around. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She’s very rich, and has a closet full of the most adorable dresses that are way too old for her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We took the blueprint of our apartment from the hallway closet and taped it to the inside of the front door, with an orange and a green marker we separated Something from Nothing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She unbuttoned her coat, carried it to the closet, and hung it up. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We have to walk through two offices before she unlocks a tiny closet lined in boxes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z This must be why he’d pulled all the boxes out of the closet that fateful afternoon . . . this might be the important thing he’d wanted to talk about. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Just wanted to get you to back of closet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He ignored her, lacing his boots and scooting over to the closet again. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z They open the closet, they open every drawer. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In my closet, piece by piece, I pry away parts of my heart, stripping off every picture, shredding them down, building little paper piles as the tape sticks to my nails. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z That’s when I realize this closet is shaped like an L. Back here, there are a bunch of boxes. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Elinor closed the closet door again and pinned up her hair with clumsy fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Kaira’s stepfather slid open a closet door and pulled out a baseball bat, holding it by fat end. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Ma went into the hall closet and pulled out some old leaves that she had been saving. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There’s no chance I could sneak into their closet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He walked to a storage closet near his desk, its walls lined with shelves and file cabinets. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They no longer had the glue of Gran keeping them together, and they fought over their memories, her jewelry, the clothes in her closet, her shoes, even. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Jahrling carried some slides containing spots of his own blood serum into his closet, shut the door, turned out the light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were younger, I used to hide in Macy’s closet and scare her. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Kelly turned back to the closet, and Melissa changed shirts. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I go into my closet and pull out the blue-and-gray flannel shirt Lidia got me for my eighteenth birthday, then put it on over my white T-shirt. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Helmuth twists the dial, tunes in a Nazi-approved station, then snaps off the radio and stows it back in the closet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “The whole point of the key is that I found it in my dad’s closet, and since he’s dead, I couldn’t ask him what it meant, so I had to find out for myself.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I dumped my shopping bags in my closet and sat down at my desk with Jenna’s gift. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The week before, Maya had spotted her standing in their parents’ closet, sniffing one of their mom’s blouses. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I took the box out of the closet, and the box out of the box, and the bag, and the unfinished scarf, and the phone. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She goes over to our shared tiny closet and pulls out dress after dress. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He thought there might be some clothes in a closet or some bedding but there wasnt. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I slip it into my closet—there's plenty of room—and when I turn back, I'm faced with the worst part of all: my bulletin board without a single thing on it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The back sleeping area was equally spare—a few cushions, a lamp, and a closet with a red dress, a white button-down shirt, and a whole fleet of empty hangers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I’ve seen my parents go into this little closet on our floor and push our garbage bags through a hole in the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “You know, right now this closet is feeling pretty tight, like maybe there’s not as much room in here as I thought.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Granny’s head poked around the edge of the closet door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Possibly I could sink right into the floor of my closet—a disappearing death. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was like having a glimpse into a rich man's closet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He found another supply closet at the far south end of the Pipeworks—at least, he assumed that’s what it was. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It hangs at the back of my closet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I turn toward the closet and listen for sounds coming down the hallway. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I looked in the coat closet and the bathroom. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s put it on the tip-top shelf in your closet.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I ride the elevator downstairs, and check to make sure nobody is in the hallway or the storage closet before I slip inside. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Before that, he’d confronted her after finding a pipe in her closet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “You’re a bee with an itch,” I say the minute Mom goes into the closet to change. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He went to Mami’s bedroom and pulled down the boxes from her closet shelf. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Joan's room, with its closet and bureau and table and chair and white blanket with the big blue C on it, was a mirror image of my own. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Luke followed to find her jerking open a closet door, then punching buttons on a panel of colored lights. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The room, bare except for an easel, wasn’t much larger than a walk-in closet. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z First thing I did was pull the plastic box out from my closet and noisily paw through all the LEGOs, picking out the red and black Aquanauts with the little oxygen tanks on their backs. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z George sets my backpack in a back closet of the plane. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But there was still no answer, for he was hurling things backward out of the closet, garments, shoes, a suitcase. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, it’s because of me he had to leave his closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “In the back of my closet,” I said, “under the floorboards. I put something there, and I’ve got to have it.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There are two wide windows with sheer curtains, a closet with an ironing board tucked inside, a mini fridge, a mini wastebasket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She squeezes them into a small closet and leans her weight against the door to close it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Do you know I like this room most of all in my baby house,” added Meg, a minute after, as they went upstairs and she looked into her well-stored linen closet. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I unlock the front door and walk straight up to my room, across the rug, and into my closet without even taking off my backpack. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They spent the greater part of the day closeted in the bedroom in hermetic conferences and at dusk they asked for an escort and some accordion players and took over Catarino’s store. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The Lord Saruman is within; but at the moment he is closeted with one Wormtongue, or doubtless he would be here to welcome such honourable guests.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I pull a robe from the closet, then walk to my bedroom door. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z What are they all doing in a closet? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The instrument closet door is open, and I can see all the cases on the shelves. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z She yanked the already stretched telephone cord a few feet farther so she could keep talking while digging through her closet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z After forever, I got out of bed and went to the closet where I kept the phone. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She went into a closet and returned with a pair of those fuzzy bunny-rabbit slippers, the kind with the big buckteeth on the toes and long ears you can trip over. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to borrow one of Lorena’s dresses, which isn’t easy because her closet is full of glittery clothes with wacky patterns. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I ran upstairs and dragged a chair into my mother's closet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He went through his closet until he found Carlos’s old duffel bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Stare at my legitimately petrified face in the mirror on the inside of the closet door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He was closeted there for hours at a time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z "Some room, it's even too small for a closet." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “The dresses in the closet were my mother’s. Borrow whatever you like,” he says, taking my hand. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Ishmael opened the closet door and looked in at the boxes stacked there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Julia’s apartment is a lot nicer than ours, but I’m pretty sure there’s no phone in the closet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He went back into the bedroom and opened the closet. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She reached into the closet for a free hanger. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My brother always hated making his bed, but he kept his clothes closet very organized. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z One night, after what felt like a googolplex inventions, I went to Dad’s closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh dear, oh dear. You are a funny one,” she says, going to my closet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The janitors’ closet was next to my chemistry room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Celia set her lipstick and brush down and turned to her closet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Ellie,” he orders, “there’s a suitcase in the bedroom closet. Get it for me.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z While Henry looked about, poking obediently into the closet, Palmer studied Henry. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Feeling that familiar pulsing annoyance behind his eyes, like an ever present headache when Ashish was around, Rishi pulled on a light sweater and stepped out from behind the closet door. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Kendra and Seth watched her rummage through the closet, finally withdrawing a metal lunch box. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I tiptoe to her closet and start digging through her things as quietly as possible. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Leaving their shoes outside the closet door, they sprinted in their socks up the marble staircase toward Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z To give you one small example, Mrs. van D. has removed all but three of her sheets from our communal linen closet. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Unless she had a spy camera set up in the janitor’s closet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The nurse went on blithely opening and shutting my drawers, emptying the closet and folding my belongings into the black overnight case. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Ashamed of my intrusion in the closet of her soul, I leave the food upon her bed and silently depart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Z crossed the room to the storage closet. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She and Bridge were alone in the bedroom Celeste shared with Tab, who was scavenging costume parts in her parents’ closet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z "Carina, bring me Belle-rose tea. We have a few leaves in the tea closet. Top row. Left-hand corner." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z After we had that conversation, I kicked my doubts to the back of the closet. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a closet in the Education Center that’s great because no one ever seems to need school supplies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Ishmael went up the wom-out stairs to the room he’d slept in for so many years and dug the book on boatmanship out of its box in the closet. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Like everything else in the closet, the shoes still have a tag hanging on them, accompanied by a small greeting card. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I brush past her and collect my coat from the closet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I walk back toward the closet, past Tuerto, who is napping on a shelf, curled inside a basket of fabric scraps. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I didn’t mean to take that A-10 Thunderbolt down off the closet shelf. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I get the sweater and check myself out again in Mom’s closet mirror. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you notice that a new box of Honey Crunchers magically appeared in your closet whenever the old box was almost empty?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z But when it came time to put new sheets on, Ophie found the shelf in the hallway linen closet empty. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Their grandmother found an old checkers set, somewhere deep in a closet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z By far the hardest part was hiding them in the closet across the hall. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He looked at the ceiling, the red trim on the closet door, the bullhorn that hung over his bed, the radio station sticker on his door. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Most of the clothes in my closet are black, gray, or red. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She got an apartment in Charles Village, a one-bedroom with old wood floors, although she might as well have been living with Curt; most of her clothes were in his walk-in closet lined with mirrors. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I looked into the mirror on the back of my closet door. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "He has a study and a bedroom, but the bedroom opens up to something, either a big closet or a small room. I'm just not sure if it's technically a bedroom or not." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I shine the light on every inch of floor in every single room; I check every closet; I even look in the attic and basement. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Kendra continued scouring the tiny house, investigating every piece of furniture, searching every closet, checking behind every miniature painting on the walls. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The room was about the size of a broom closet, with barred windows on all four walls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A closet door cut off one corner, and Emily was surprised to see the inside was a triangle instead of the expected square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z You didn’t have to, you wanted to, ’cause Mom said the only way she’d let April come over was if you cleaned the refrigerator, your bathroom, and your room, and organized the closet. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I drag the wicker laundry basket from the closet, take down all the pictures, and load them into the basket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It’s something else entirely, something that reminds me of the mad, amazing garments that Locke’s mother’s closet was stuffed with. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That one sad picture hanging on the closet. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “One night—don’t tell him I told you this—one night he snuck into your room while you were sleeping and stood there with a flashlight at your closet looking at your pigeon.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The boys conducted Abra through the house—opened closets to show wash basins and toilets and chandeliers, still crated and waiting to be installed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The second time, I brought some colored pencils and told him they were old ones I'd found in the back of my closet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Sheriff Robinson, he found some shotguns in a closet, and sniffed them to see if they had been fired recently. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One of the closets reachable from the secret passage belonged to Felicia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He crept to his closet and lifted the cardboard flap covering a hole in the wall. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I leapt out of bed and opened the closet door. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The Giant Do-Nut smelled like fried eggs and donuts and other people's closets. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I want to always look at it, hanging in my closet, and remember this night in November when I stepped into my own light. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The other part runs screaming worse than a four-year-old begging her mama to chase the boogeyman out of the closet and off to a place where bad dreams don’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I actually live on Park Avenue, I kept telling myself as I hung my clothes in the closet Eric had cleared out for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I had to stand in the closet for the rest of the morning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Startled, she sat up and saw Mo standing by her open closet door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I take the map over to the bed but, on a whim, return to the closet and pull that old green jacket off the hanger. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Absolutely silently, she begins to slip out of the closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The door to his closet was open, all of his sweaters folded with precision. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z From her bed she directed my mother to clean out the closets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When the bedroom door opened, I pulled the closet doors shut. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z But the Fashion Minister barrels in, followed by his team of dandies and a wardrobe closet with massive carriagelike wheels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know what the children in the regular classrooms get to do, but I know it’s close to holiday time when whatever teacher we have that year pulls this thing out of a closet. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Of the undersides of the shelves in the closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Of course I didn’t want to get thrown out and sent back to live in a closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The enormous barn contained just one cavernous room with a few closets around the perimeter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It’s not till later tonight, but I opened my closet, looked in there, and realized I have nothing to wear. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They crawled in waves from her closet and waited in the shadows. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He cannot find the shoes she asks for, but he finds a pair of men’s loafers in a closet and helps her put them on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When they were gone, I could see by the way she was slamming her own things into her closet, that she was angry. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Singer brought out from the closet the tin box in which he kept crackers and fruit and cheese. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I secretly love seeing him like this, in the clothes he chooses each morning from his closet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In a short while, the collection of wildlife specimens expanded beyond his closet. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The Eagle was wearing his only outfit, and I wondered whether he just had thirty identical white button- down shirts and thirty identical black ties in his closet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “The day she died, she was cleaning out the closet,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The baron’s family and servants hid in closets and under beds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a tiny closet with a wooden seat that had a hole in it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Let’s see what you have in your closet She opened the closet doors and started thumbing through the clothes f had hanging there, giving little motherly comments. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Having learned from Julie, he checked the hall closet and found a shopping cart waiting for him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She locks her bedroom door and walks straight to her closet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He went into the closet and listened. . you mean the car stayed out all night in the driveway?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I thumbed through my closet and picked out a pleated emerald-green skirt with a crisply ironed white shirt. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It had a bed, an old, gray- brown dresser, a small closet. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There were closets with hangers for their clothes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He found one in the closet and threw it in. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I was drawing a map of my closet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z You walk right into the bedroom, and you open the second wife’s closet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No pile of sneakers that never made it to the closet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Together, we cobbled together some sandwich makings and found a dusty picnic basket in the hallway utility closet. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z On he went like that, until Florida calmed down and curled up on the floor of her closet and fell asleep. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I had calculated the amount of time I needed to walk the halls, as well as the cubic feet of the storage closets. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z At three on the dot, I went to the coat closet and grabbed my knapsack to go home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He slung the bag over his shoulder, and then adjusted it into place while staring in the mirror attached to his closet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Yet there stood those jars of corn whiskey on our closet shelf. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Just as it had been the first time Ophie had opened the closet, the day Mrs. Caruthers had demanded she never open the closet again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Solitary confinement at Apalachee means living in a concrete box the size of a walk-in closet. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As Wes rummaged through the closet, moving clothes and boxes from one side to the other, he came across a small see-through bag packed with a green substance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Dresses are hung in a closet so big my new bed could fit inside it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Framed photographs of her parents on the bureau, poems framed on the walls, and her closet— everything in its place, the floor varnished, and her shoes standing diligently side by side. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Not a grand cabin, to be sure; in fact, little more than a closet with a bunk and a scuttle, which was the proper name for porthole. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But then I have turned away, come back to my San Francisco apartment to closet myself in the silence I both need and fear. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she went to the supply closet to get paper towels because Carter Harrison got frosting in his hair. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I grip the frame of the closet door to steady myself. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She used to put her coat on a hanger, her sneakers in the closet, and she paid bills as soon as they came. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I could hear her rummaging in her closet until she emerged, holding a different pair of shoes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She still owned a closet full of hideous neon T-shirts and shorts from their last shopping trip, so she instead redirected him to a bookstore. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Along with the Agua Florida he found in the closet a bottle of lemon rinse Alice had always used for her hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I took a shoe box from the closet and stuffed the gun and shirt inside, then glanced around the room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “There are like ten floors in this place. I’m sure there are other unlocked closets.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were bones in every room, every closet, on the back porch. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z We better find a place with loads of closet space. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I don’t have in my suitcase—or even in my closet back at home—enough office-type outfits to get me through a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes—in the ... closet. And she absolutely cannot be disturbed.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I had a nitrous oxide tank in my closet so I could get my daily high. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z These detectives admitted to hiding in closets and under beds, posing as ANC members, perpetrating virtually any deception that would enable them to get information about our organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not want to open that closet ever again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I missed my dog sitting in the closet with me, dripping his drippy mouth onto my toes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling’s expressions were like a closet of pressed gray suits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The woman who took care of me gave that chore to her children, who delighted in torturing me by hiding in the closet and making believe they were ghosts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Build a pillow fort or pretend they were camping in the closet—Doreen never complained they weren’t around. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I haven’t been inside the storage closet since that morning Mom tracked me down here. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She locks the door, and Mami and I slip out of the closet and eat breakfast, taking turns drinking out of one cup while Tía Mari and Tío Pepe share the other one. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I could see my mother in the closet, the stuck window, the suitcase on the floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I heard footsteps coming my way, I ducked into the linen closet and shut the door behind me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I don’t buy it when people tell you that closets are the only way a ghost or monster can get into your room. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It was probably like being in an elevator with a stranger in that closet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Quick! In the closet!” hissed Harry, stuffing Dobby in, shutting the door, and flinging himself onto the bed just as the door handle turned. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Phoebe reluctantly got dressed, pulling a wrinkled blouse and skirt from the closet. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z "Then it's a three bedroom. It doesn't have a closet." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I helped him to his feet and shoved him toward the closet. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He released the door and I tore out of the closet, my brother David tumbling out behind me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In my closet are balls for sports I still don’t know the rules to. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I step out of the closet just as there’s a knock on my bedroom door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Hatsue’s father took his shotgun from the closet and set it in the corner of the living room, unloaded. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They didn’t tell her to leave, but even after she hung her coat in the hall closet, set her bag down in her old bedroom, they didn’t speak to her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “My mother kept our winter coats in our closet.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z All I want to do is lie on my mat in the closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Naomi pulled the light chain, and the bulb blinked on, revealing two more children crowded into the back of the closet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a hidden storage closet back here,” Minho explained, walking past some shelves into a dark corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She leaves the doctor on the line while she checks Finch’s bedroom and closet, but she says he isn’t there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And sure enough, with each step closer to the closet, the sound gets louder. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He hung it up on a hanger and put it in the closet. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z There was a closet on the east side which had a hole in the floor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Just to nod, as he had done at the clothes closet, acknowledging our existence. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I put a towel over Bertha’s sewing machine and hung my backpack on the hook on the closet door. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z We talked about gowns and shoes and flowers and hairstyles, and carved out of the emptiness a small mental space in which our closets and bellies were full and the road before us was straight. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Johnny lay in the ‘birth and death room.’This was hardly more than a closet with a tiny window off the kitchen, used for storage except in times of sickness. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I checked my closet, just in case there was a giant invisible possum or gopher or something lurking there. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Frustrated, I wrote in my closet: I am still going with Matt, but I like Drew. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the corner of her closet, there was a large green-tinted glass jar of loose change shaped like a teakettle. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It is not a mirror but a closet door. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z My notes are spilling over and across the wall itself and reaching toward the closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He thinks about the Rola radio, locked in the closet for safekeeping. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Canton and Mr. Munch stopped at the custodian closet. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Catching Ben off guard, Bull kicked him into the open closet where his uniforms hung. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I shake my head, put everything back, and step out of my closet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Late each night, he opens the hall closet and takes out the Rola radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Mom shuts the closet door quietly behind her. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z On the floor of the closet, our concentration game was undisturbed—all the center cards facedown. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z We eat our puffs—a heavenly dozen—and then Danielle takes me to her pink room and pulls the black go-go boots out of the closet. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Trina was taught to hide under the bed or in a closet and remain as quiet as possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Last week, while dusting in your closet, I discovered all of the butterflies pinned to the back wall. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Him forcing his leg between hers, him pushing her down onto his bed, taking her in the bathroom, in the closet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He took the plate and disappeared into a tiny closet. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then he emerged carrying a sawn section of tongue-and-groove planking and laid it down and entered the closet again and emerged with a metal box. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I program the closet for an outfit to my taste. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He’d swing her up and place her on the top of a bookcase or china closet, and then go back and sit down. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe we can see if the janitor’s closet is open,” Luke said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z After Emily Sue left, I went upstairs and hung my dreary new suit in my closet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I went to the closet and took Harry’s tuxedo out of the dry cleaner’s plastic. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z She had made inscriptions on the wall by the closet, feet and inches to measure a child’s growing height. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The closet floor vibrated whenever someone climbed the stairs below it, which is how I knew T. Ray was coming. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Joey and I had left a bag marked CHAS, and one marked PALMER, inside my closet after we separated out the goods. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “The backups. A closet in a house is no place for them. We didn’t have time for better choices before, but now we do. He is going to move them to a safer location.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z One door was to a closet, which didn’t have anything really interesting in it, just a bunch of coats. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I grabbed a black Sharpie and marched into my closet. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Hagar stood at the door of the little cardboard closet, running her hands over the shoulders of dresses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like an old storage closet, brooms and buckets pushed haphazardly to the side. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "Let me out of here: a person can't breathe in this closet." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a single bed, a dresser with an attached mirror, and a small closet, but I didn’t have a Bible. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Like yesterday,” Roy went on, “when you tried to kill me in the janitor’s closet. Remember? You ended up getting whupped by a girl, stripped naked, and strung to a flagpole.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d left piles of clothes in the closet and the armoire, but no shoes anywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I mean, she spent like a week looking for it in every closet, in the laundry room, everywhere.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I choose the bad movie option, diving for the closet and shutting myself in before Oscar’s boots are stomping across the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They don’t have fancy egg timers in the supply closet at her office. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I close my closet, turn around, look at her, and wait. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Is it about the history of this school’s vice principal having his office inside an old janitor’s closet complete with a mop sink?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Revealed by daylight, we saw the strangers we had shared a black closet with for six weeks. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They went into the custodian's closet, which was big enough to be an office. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad talked to Carlos, and now he’s going to tell the other parents in the building about the secret room underneath the storage closet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I would stay in my closet until Peach went home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Your fatigues are in the closet,” the physician says. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Someone cranks up the volume, and the storage closet bursts open, revealing Bram, holding a hairbrush. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z My hat, scarf, and gloves are all sitting in my closet. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z About ten seconds later the elevator stops and the doors open up inside the closet of an empty hotel room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I shook my head and pointed to the pink dress with the white eyelet trim hanging on the door of the closet. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Hands shaking, I pull on the combat boots and fatigues Izzi filched from the school’s supply closets. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Feeling triumphant and treacherous at the same time, Melanie took the eyelashes home and hid them in her closet. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The debriefing room is the size of a closet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z April had been keeping all the costumes in a box in her closet, and it had been decided that they would all get ready at her place. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes watched his mother as she moved from the window to her closet to look for a pair of shoes to wear with her white dress. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I throw his shoes into the closet too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She went up to the hall closet, found three brand-new toothbrushes, and shoved them into the front of her pants, along with a bar of Dove soap. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z My mind does a quick inventory of my odd little hiding places, and I wind up in the supply closet, curled up against a crate of chalk. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I was also hoping I’d get used to the smell—a strange, acrid stink like the supply closet in a chemistry classroom—but no such luck. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I can only write a little bit at a time, as I don’t get much privacy around here, even though it’s just me and Mami in the walk-in closet in the Mancinis’ bedroom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I stumbled toward the closet, tears blurring the light from the hall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Kendra hurried to the closet, selected a bottle, unscrewed the cap, dumped the contents, and filled it with milk from the pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I gave Sidney Aronofsky the biggest punch he ever had in the back of his big head and was sent to the closet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z From his closet, he unsheathed the Mameluke sword which he had bought the same day he was commissioned a Marine officer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The closets there were empty, too, nothing but coat hangers jingling on the metal rod. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The closet is already filled with an assortment of clothes, every single one of them a high-end brand. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For a moment he was tempted to take it into one of the water closets and read it at once. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But there was another door on the side of the room that led to a pass-through closet, which opened to the hallway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She was actually using part of Dimple’s closet because all her stuff wouldn’t fit. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She rushes to the hallway closet and comes back with a bunch of her high heels and lets me choose any I want. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Once she’d seen them go inside, she gripped the braid tight and stumbled back to the closet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Go look what I got,” she said, pointing to the broom closet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z If you stood up to open the closet, you'd have to negotiate the desk so you wouldn't end up piled on the bed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Each evening she has tackled a drawer, a closet, a set of shelves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He goes to the closet and pulls out the big cardboard box with the pinnies and I start sucking both sleeves. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was a converted utility closet, with just enough space for two machines and their chairs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I put Hudson’s breakup box in my parents’ closet a couple hours ago. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In it were Henry’s books—not as many as you might think—and a single bed, and very little else, except a closet with a large, conspicuous padlock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Or even just the fact that my whole room is the size of Simon’s closet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z We cleaned up after ourselves carefully; we learned to use the water taps and the dusting cloths we found in the kitchen closet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z At some point during the day you’ll feel the sudden, unexplainable urge to clean out that closet, and there the package will be.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z My fingers brush along the hangers in my closet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The closet and most of her dresser drawers were open, displaying an array of girls’ clothing, and Kelly had laid out an assortment of makeup on her desk. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Sí, there was some noise from the linen closet, small sounds of someone moving around. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z For their clothing, they use “the closet”—a wire spring standing upright, from a mattress stripped of its ticking. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Room 205 buzzed as students filed in and hung their jackets and book bags in the coat closet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z All sounds were muted, as if I had a wad of thick cotton in both ears or was shut up in a padded closet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A minute later, Richard came in and said, “Didn’t I leave that extra pair of work shoes here a few months ago? I know they were in the closet, but I can’t find them anywhere.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Which is why I spent all weekend clearing piles of clothes and papers out of the living room, piling everything into my closet in one giant, precarious stack. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Then why did I have to scrounge in Lake Mag's charity closet? Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She’d pace round the room, searching through closets and drawers, telling me stories of her life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of subterfuges: examining his shirts for perfume, tailing him along the street, hiding in the closet and jumping out, red-hot with discovery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Without even thinking, I dive fully into the linen closet, squeezing myself next to the laundry hamper, Rolf’s rumpled uniform clutched in my fists. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When she joined him he was inside the closet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z No janitor has chilled in this closet for a very long time. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He was getting his coat from a closet by the door, but when he saw us, he stopped. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She's got more neck braces and false teeth than she knows what to do with, and her drawers and closets overflow with human hair. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Our teacher motions toward the back closet like a queen waving to a lowly servant. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I look around the closet, at the comforter we’re sitting on, at the pillows, the water jug, the energy bars, and that’s when it hits me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Miss Pat took Ritz crackers from the closet and put them on the table. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He chose the high shelf of his closet, which he could not reach without standing on his chair. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Even the bathrooms and closets are built on a scale different from anything I’d ever encountered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She thought of all the secret passageways, of the halls and closets, of the tiny, added-on rooms in the Spencer house, of all the spots a small, frightened little girl could hide. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The older kids usually seemed to be wearing whatever they’d grabbed first out of their closet that morning. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Can I borrow the key to the Hideout—the room below the storage closet?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I opened my closet and there they were, where I’d left them four months before: my scrapping boots. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I couldn’t explain it: a fat and short key, in a little envelope, in a blue vase, on the highest shelf in his closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know why it was in my closet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z George looked over the skirts that hung in Kelly’s closet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “Pm sensitive! You said so yourself when Tidings teased me about sitting in my closet.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A snow-white dress was draped over her arm, and she avoided looking at Meggie as she made her way past her to hang it in the closet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z That night, the pantry and supply closet were overrun with rats. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It looks like a storage closet, just one bare lightbulb glowing over shelves of suitcases. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Bridge’s mom tilted her head toward the cello case leaning against the closet mirror. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z And with a peek into the closet every five minutes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z This time all her parents have had to do is bring down the boxes from a closet shelf, retrieve the jewels from the safety deposit box, find the itemized list for the caterer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They had not met up with her, undoubtedly, thought Harry, because she and Dean were cozily closeted in Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop, that haunt of happy couples. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z An arched doorway on the other side of the bedroom leads to a dressing area, closets, and a bathroom. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He went to the closet and moved a little rug, uncovering a trapdoor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I drag extra blankets from the linen closet and put them there, too. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Wes laced up his white Nikes, beelined to his mother’s room, and started to look through her drawers and closets for change, his daily ritual after she left for work. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Grandma went directly to her room, where she took the shotgun she called Mr. Higgenbottom from its leather case in the back of her closet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, our closet seems to magically contain whatever outfit we need. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z TJ shrugged, tossing his science book onto the floor of the metal closet, the smell of feet wafting up from it like a cloud of dust, unsettled. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z A gas jet embedded in one wall would be controlled from his closet, as would other gas jets installed in apartments throughout the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "Right, so what do they think? Do they think you murdered me and put me down the garbage disposer or something? Or maybe I'm locked in a closet? Come on, Mom. Get real." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s nothing that wasn’t laid out in there: Henry being gay, Bea going to rehab, the queen tacitly keeping Henry in the closet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One afternoon, she found herself automatically going upstairs to suss out the latest stash of wine bottles, and only realized upon opening the closet that that wasn’t a problem anymore. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I’d be delighted,” he replied, opening one of the closet doors. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Here’s a little water closet, the toilet full of urine. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We got into an argument, I pushed him into the closet, and he began to cry and sniffle. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He pushes to the back of the closet behind a row of Laura's dresses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Melissa Dumas dug Lorraine’s pair out of the closet, and she and I did this dance you wouldn’t believe. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z As in: On the top shelf of Mom and Dad’s closet in a silver safety box JB and I discovered that my dad has jumper’s knee, a.k.a. patellar tendinitis. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Antonapoulos let him know that while they were not noticing, their guest had gone into the closet and drunk up all the gin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Instead I could noose the bedsheet round my neck, hook myself up in the closet, throw my weight forward, choke myself off. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas took them and walked out of the closet to sit on the ground, eager to try them on. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Then I should have the key to the closet,” I finally say. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z An hour flies by while I feverishly try on everything in my closet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “They are my research on Angel,” I answered as I emerged from my hiding place in the closet. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “God, I could have ratted out anyone,” Alaska said softly as she unearthed a forty-ounce bottle of Magnum malt liquor from Long- well Chase’s closet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Dadi’s laundry closet/room was just big enough for a cot and a table. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I go to Grammy’s closet and pull down the picture album. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Brian’s still studying those spines of books, his back to me as Heather takes my hand and leads me toward the closet, her arm pulled tight as if forcing an unwilling dog on a leash. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Ma’s bedroom closet was spilling over with old suitcases, some of which she had brought with her when she left Haiti almost twenty-five years before. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I think of all the things I could mention: Theodore Finch is living in his closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I went back to my closet, scooped up one of Great-great-aunt Florentine’s lavender pillows, and took it back across the hall before I could think about it too much. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She grunted and panted as she wrenched free the closet’s packed-in stuff and tossed it behind her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Celia reached into her closet and pulled out a pair of trendy, pseudo cowboy boots. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Did the custodian pack everything into a box, drop it in a storage closet, waiting for her parents to return? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “It’s not the being out of the big gay closet part that bothers me. It’s...My friends and that school are going to tear you apart.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Gerhard sets the radio on the middle shelf in the closet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Singer brought from his closet a tin box that contained a loaf of bread, some oranges, and cheese. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They were telling Papi, who was hidden in this secret closet, about how we would all be leaving in Tío Vic's limo for the airport for a flight he was going to get us. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It had to be like he’d said before: she was cleaning out the closet the day of the accident. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like she was hard to miss in this closet they were living in. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I look over at Keisha, who is putting her things in the closet. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Miss Larsen’s room is tidy and bright, and about the size of a storage closet—barely big enough for a single bed, a tall oak dresser, and a narrow pine desk with a brass lamp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z On April 8,1 gather the few things I have of his, pack them into a box, and slide them into the back of my closet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Through it Mariam could see that it, like the rest of the house, was sparsely furnished: bed in the corner, with a brown blanket and a pillow, a closet, a dresser. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Mowing grass is useful! And sitting in the closet never hurt anybody! But Peach cries and carries on and makes everybody miserable!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t have a study room or a sunroom, just a room, and even she knew that her room was really more like a closet with delusions of grandeur. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She says nothing to us but opens the closet and begins packing all her clothes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Like, nobody else has noticed the door in the back of the closet before?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The first thing she did in the new home, while Johnny was helping the ice man carry in the furniture, was to nail down the bank in a closet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm sitting in the back of the salon next to the storage closet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Naomi pulled open the door to the cafeteria cleaning supply closet with no more thought than she’d given to any other task over the last two days. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, her father didn’t want anything around that reminded him of his daughter, so he returned it. It’s been sitting in my closet, shut away...until you came along.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They found clothes in the closets to wear—clean clothes—which they put on after scrubbing themselves with real soap and drying themselves with real towels. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He left a note, then hid for several days in a cellar closet his parents thought was boarded up, but which Sticky had found a way to enter. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The three of us scampered out of the classroom and back to the open closet window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z When it was quite late he murmured something, went to a closet, and drew forth an evil weapon, a long yellowish tube ending in a bellows and a trigger. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His bag was not in the hall closet. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I paused, wondering if I should pilfer anything from the supply closet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “There’s those three people in the closet, too. The ones in the black boxes? Now that’s what I call a disability.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The Keeper unlocked a small storage closet and selected a cane. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I spent the next three days playing happy when other people were around, but spending all my private time crying in my closet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z That’s when I get to leave my gym clothes in the closet and put on a dress and heels for church with my family. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He was in a dark closet smelling of medicine. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In fact, I hate the idea of things being sold—uprooted from their natural homes, whisked off to some closet that’s in God- knows-what state of disorder. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She jumps to her feet and ducks into his closet, and he can hear hangers sliding around. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He has a secret layer of drawers behind his closet that he opens with a clicker like a garage door. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I have to stay away from the closet, go to all my classes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z All of her couldn’t fit into the closet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I hunted around until I saw the broom leaning in a closet. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He then leaned down and whispered something to the seemingly unconscious girl before he headed to the storage closet on the far side of the room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She blinks blinks blinks before shifting her focus back to the poster on the closet door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Would he realize right away that I was no longer hidden in his parents’ closet, using his queen of hearts to mark my place in The Swiss Family Robinson? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The mystery of the closet poked at Ophie just until she was distracted once more by Mrs. Caruthers’s endless demands, which was not long at all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She shoved her feet into Naomi’s shoes, pushed out of the closet, and clomped across the cafeteria. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And then Dad pulled down his rifle and bullets from the closet. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Half an hour after, Jo went to ‘Mother’s closet’ for something, and there found little Beth sitting on the medicine chest, looking very grave, with red eyes and a camphor bottle in her hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a musty closet with rotting food and maggots. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z My racket and tennis skirts are in my closet, awaiting cobwebs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It smells like a closet in an old house and is in an ancient shape. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z We can hear her madly opening closet doors, drawers, boxes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A second table, covered with books and papers and off-kilter clay pots—baked and painted, but not glazed—squeezed itself between the bed foot and the closet door. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I stepped out of my closet to go pay my respects to the dead. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The Prince hurried off then, and, after one stop to unlock a closet and remove several pairs of boots that had once belonged to Guilderian soldiers, he hurried outside. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even though the closet was my safe haven, I never felt completely comfortable inside it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z About like if you put a few good closets together. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Occasionally she would go into a paroxysm of cleaning, and she would race around the house for an hour, throwing things into closets. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope she doesn’t come in here and ask me why I’m sitting in my closet. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They had a closet full of whisky and wine; they had cars—but what church did they go to and what would he teach his children when they gathered around him in the evening? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Check the downstairs bathroom to make sure there are enough washcloths and towels. If there aren’t, get some from the linen closet in the hall.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s in that box in my closet. I put stuff there that your dad gave me. I forgot about the poem, though, till just now.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up for her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, she’s here!” came Granny’s voice from the depths of the closet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “But I suppose they could be in a closet or storage room somewhere.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I went back into the room and got this daybook from the closet, this book that is nearly out of pages, I brought it to him and wrote, “I don’t speak. I’m sorry.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She went to her room, pulled out a cotton dress from the closet, and slung it over her arm. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When I was younger, they would lock me up in the closet because they wanted to get high and beat up on each other. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I inched backward, deeper into the closet, feeling my fingers in my mouth, the taste of shoes, of feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When I'm dried and moisturized with lotion, I find an outfit has been left for me at the front of the closet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I had to keep the dog in the closet on a big old lock and chain, and he used to be in there spinning around in circles. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As a child she always had a knack for organization; she would take it upon herself to neaten closets and drawers, not only her own but her parents’ as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If someone saw all five of us walk into the closet together, they’d know something was up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I went to her linen closet and got a sheet for the kitchen table. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In that tiny burst of light, I saw a closet—its accordion doors halfway open. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I can’t take my focus from that door—like when I was a kid and was convinced there was a monster in my closet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I took the back stairs up to my room and my closet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I look up at the mirrored hallway closet and try a Lauren smile. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Eventually we moved our TV to a closet. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the older days, Arab men wore long, flowing robes and cloaks with golden edges, but suits had sneaked into their closets now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He turned the latch on the door and hurried to the closet to listen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The suitcase had been sitting in Scoob’s closet for a month. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z I stole all the ones of Jamie from a box in Mom’s closet because I didn’t think she’d miss them, and also because I’m the one who was always in love with Jamie. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Then Voxy points to a room off to the side no bigger than a coat closet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “In the closet there’s a scarf he left the last time he was here. I keep running across it. It still smells like him.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I went through the apartment room by room, closet by closet, wondering just what I would do if I found somebody in there. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “We need to search the closets. Maybe they have special tools.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I got some spare blankets out of the hall closet and bedded down on the living-room couch for the night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Real slow, I open her closet and just like I thought, forty-five things fall down on my head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There might’ve been something good in the closets, but even before Herman E. Calloway’d locked them shut I sure wasn’t about to peek in them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z And while the closeted, flatulent men showed no shame, at the urinals men acted nervous. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It could still be hanging on the back of the closet door at home. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She filled my closet with handmade dresses with puffed sleeves and made dolls’ outfits from the scraps. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z That she tracked me down to the storage closet and found the secret door. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The narrow strip of light at the edge of the closet door widens, and your breath stops. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z |
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