When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

“Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past …”

“I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not…”

“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”

“I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular…”