You are afraid that she will change.

…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 never known...

As the crow flies. That’s how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she’d...

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I’m just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men...

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

I usually kept everybody at arm’s distance.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There’s a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there...

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.

Most people assume because my name is Jarod that I was born Martha proof. But I’m not Martha proof—I’m merely Martha resistant up to 100 meters.

Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I’m often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw....

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren’t together.

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove...

Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn’t get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the...

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the...

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the...

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out...

Little sister don’t you worry about a thing todayTake the heat from the sunLittle sisterI know that everything is not okBut you’re like honey on my tongueTrue love never can be rentBut only true love...

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

I managed to beat Michael Phelps’ 400 meter IM time. And not only did I beat his time, but I did it in exactly 200 meters.

the ultimate distance and the real difference between financial acquisition and financial disbursement if financial planning

When the current reality creates conflict, distance is often a solution.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn’t about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

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

So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing; two-thousand-word acts of love on air-mail paper. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really...

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart. It dropped with deadly effect upon the sorest spot of all,...

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

Do we need distance to get close?

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.But because they never...

He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. She had been distant and closed away, a princess in...

You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.

Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed...

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,” he...

Kitalifa ni utiifu kamili, woga, umbali (kwa maana ya kuwa mbali na biashara ya mamafia wengine mpaka kwa makubaliano maalumu) na nidhamu ya kutoshirikiana na mamlaka zote za serikali. Ukishtakiwa kwa kosa la madawa au...

He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because, with Edgar,...

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it’s own reflection.

Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.

I was very close to kissing her. The timing was right, and the mood was right, but the distance of two inches between our two mouths was just too far to traverse in the end.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.