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“I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without...needing space."Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her."There's no air in space," h...”
“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
“However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.”
“After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.”
“There was a feeling of inevitability when I met you. The sense that we would be together; that there would be a moment when you would look at me in a certain way, and we could cross the threshold f...”
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnit...”
“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.”
“I realised I really didn’t 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 k...”
“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”
“I’ve been in the Wilds for a month and a half now, and in that time I’ve almost forgotten about the fences. It’s amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance t...”
“Do you think it’s funny that both of our favorite memories are about the people we like the least now?” I ask.“Maybe that’s why we dislike them,” she says. “The distance between who they were and w...”
“She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.”
“It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles an...”
“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they ...”
“Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.”
