117 quotes found
“However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.”
“There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.”
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
“The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.”
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
“There is a magic in distance. Look back at the golden lamp-lit rooms of your home from the road of your life, and it all for a moment is exactly how you hoped it would be: warm, peaceful, safe.”
“And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her."Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Just . . . erasing away. Recovering the six inches between them”
“I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.”
“could not sleep last nightbed cover of unease distance kept me awake windy whispers in summer nightwas telling you were awake one corner to another rollinglike swimming in a competitionmy heart wan...”
“I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.”
“All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only grea...”
“I realised I really didnt know what I was doing and I felt her trace drowning in the middle of the cars and the people, in the middle of the streets and far away, in the secrets she so jealously ke...”
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, y...”
“Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.”
“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
“I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.”
“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”
“May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever!”
“...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had neve...”
“But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
