But to write about it, Sattouf knew he would have tell his life story, which he had kept carefully shut away: his childhood growing up in Libya and Syria with a Syrian father and French mother, his parents' divorce, his teenage years in Brittany.
She draped it in layers of shimmering blue silk with gold brocade trim, carefully sewed shut the seams, then gently crowned the infant with a plastic golden halo.
After an evening of exhilarating terror, filmgoers would check that their doors were locked and their windows shut a little more carefully before climbing into bed.
The baby stirred, then let out a cry — and then it didn't matter how carefully she shut the door behind her.
I quickly shut the door and carefully pulled one of the pristine white cylinders from the box.
Once the 30 minutes is up, shut off heat and carefully strain the brown rice in the pasta strainer until all of the water is rinsed away (as you would do with pasta).
Carefully shutting the door, I took down a large print – a rather drab picture of flowers that had come with the house, and opened a wooden panel on to an unused space under the eaves.
I should qualify my source: he or she is not from the deal-making side (where they keep their mouths shut or, at least, more carefully confide), but someone likely to be consulted by the deal-making side.
Cell service, they said, could be offered only by the winners in a bidding process -- one whose rules, revealed on July 31, seemed carefully designed to shut out any non-American companies.
Then, carefully and firmly shut the door.
