Quotes About Distance

How could she make amends without knowing for what? She guessed she would never know, unless he chose to talk to her. She wanted to reach out to him and try to settle the matter, but it was difficult right now with them so far apart.

Love) isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room, Lexi. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make.

She tried to pray but her prayers felt far away, remnants of another woman's body.

Lucy: You need to get a waterproof phone, so I can call you when you're in the shower. Because that seems to be the place I miss you most.

There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.

My mom says the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I'm hopeful that their tree was on a hill and I'm rolling farther away as write

Leni felt distance spreading between them. That was how change came, she supposed: in the quiet of things unspoken and truths unacknowledged.

Sigo siendo del partido del viento, del clan de la distancia".

Per questo le aveva regalato quella moneta: come una specie di portafortuna per tutti e due. Gliel'aveva regalata - riflette Mr. Silvera mentre il campanile suona l'una e mezzo - come una di quelle monete che si gettano nelle fontane di lontani paesi, di lontane città, con la speranza di tornare. Ma l'aveva anche avvertita che era falsa.

The notion of "the present" refers to things that are close to us, not to anything that is far away. Our "present" does not extend throughout the universe. It is like a bubble around us.

Ang mga itinutulak mong palayo… lumalayo.

I tend the mobile now like an injured bird We text, text, text our significant words. I re-read your first, your second, your third, look for your small xx, feeling absurd. The codes we send arrive with a broken chord. I try to picture your hands, their image is blurred. Nothing my thumbs press will ever be heard. "Text

She tried to stare hard past all this, down the road to the patch where this would end badly. But the view was obscured by hope and distance, and by the mist that always lies over the new.

Somewhere within the meeting of our eyes, our souls were bonding, even if our day to day lives were far apart.

yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely?

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

Together we climbed on the Peace City bus and road back towards my house. My almost normal feeling was gone. I was miles from ordinary now. Miles.

You're in my personal space, so get out of it.

I think we did love each other. In our own way. But we simply didn't love each other enough.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.

You never sounded farther away from me and I will take that balloon and stab the fuck out of and at the same time I will take that balloon and tie it around Peach's neck because WHO THE FUCK CAN CUNT OUT OVER A BALLOON?

It's not romantic and it's a daylight date but I understand that your attraction to me is so intense that you need to keep a safe distance.

They're in their own world, where good things happen, a quarter mile and a million light years away.

I try to help you move on, but you don't know why she hates you and it's all you want to talk about. Every. Fucking. Night. And it would be easier if these talks were happening on a park bench or your stoop or your sofa or your bed that I assembled but they're happening over the phone. And I can't smell you over the phone and I feel like a 1-900-Build-Me-Up hotline you call to feel good about yourself.