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Quotes About Distance

Great," Simon said. "Maybe I'll even make it back before my mother notices I'm gone. What's the time difference between here and Manhattan?" "You have a mother?" Aline looked amazed.
~ Cassandra Clare
Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to.
~ Cassandra Clare
Each time Alec finished a postcard, he wrote 'Wish you were here' at the end. And each time, Magnus snatched the card and wrote, with a flourish, 'Except not really'. Alec finished his last postcard, and Magnus reached for it, then let his hand drop. He read what Alec had written and smiled, charmed and surprised. On the postcard to his sister, Alec had added, 'Wish you were here. Except not really' himself. He shot Magnus a tiny grin.
~ Cassandra Clare
Story of her life. The first cute guy she'd seen in what felt like ages and she met him at a dive bar located in another state hours away from where she lived.
~ Cat Johnson
When two hearts are meant for each other no distance is so far, no time is so long and no other love can break them apart.
~ Cat Stevens
He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul..
~ Cate Tiernan
Where is the high place the Great Ones spoke of? Where is the canyon filled with blood? And how will I ever reach across so great a distance to take Loh-rhett-ah's hand?" "You must have faith. The high place will be there, as will the great canyon." Leaning forward, Warrior clasped his brother's shoulder. "Courage, tah-mah. Have courage.
~ Catherine Anderson
He must figger it's good riddance," Amy mused. "They can cover twice the distance we can in a day. What else could've took him so long?" Loretta had no illusions. Hunter would follow her--to the ends of the earth if he had to.
~ Catherine Anderson
My heart rides with you, tah-mah. " Hunter moved his hands in a light caress down Loretta's arms, then released her. "And mine remains here.
~ Catherine Anderson
Mais les larmes sont celles d'une joie désespérée. Tout a été largué, mais ce tout n'a été que ça : le corps que j'ai livré n'était qu'un souffle d'air et celui que j'ai embrassé se trouve déjà à des années-lumière. Comment, dans un tel dénuement, ne pas exprimer sa détresse ?
~ Catherine Millet
Run, Steven. Run fast and far.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
But what you don't realize, until you have to live it, is that it's the absence of the person that's the trouble. The ongoing absence. And when you're missing someone, a longer time without them doesn't solve the problem. The longer you don't see someone, the more you miss them.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I love my brother Robbie, but not enough to save him. I love my sister Katie, but I've learned to do it from a distance. This is how we grow. Have you noticed that? This is what we call loving each other. No wonder we have wars.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
he wouldn't meet August's eyes. "Um . . ." he said after a time. "We'll be too far away." "I've got my camera with the super zoom." Seth buckled the belt and threw it back on the picnic table with a huge, jangly clank. Then he took August by the arm and led him around to the rear door of the motor home.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
This is my heart—carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When the aliens come, there'll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one'll be longer by light years.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
they were missing each other so much that all topics seemed to lead back to their separation and loss.
~ Cathy Glass
Odd how being away could teach you about home.
~ Cathy Pickens
we may stand at safe distance from one another, so that the ill do not infect the well.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I like people. I like watching them. It's just I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very poweful binoculars.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate
~ Germaine Greer
Old people see best in the distance.
~ German proverb
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.
~ German proverb
sister living in Canada. She is always writing to me
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner