“For so many years I’d been held down by outside forces, inside an invisible but almost

“For so many years I’d been held down by outside forces, inside an invisible but almost palpable circle. It took some time for me to grasp that somewhere a decision had been taken, that the barrier which had always been held down was being raised, the door on which we hadn’t knocked for years had opened of itself, and I could enter if I chose.”

Magda Szabo, The Door