Quotes About Distance

I am thinking about you, I say to her. Can you hear me?

Hell, Grace. I'd go to Australia to visit you. I don't care about the job, or where you lay your head down at night, as long as your heart's mine.

I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.

I hold people at a distance, I know it. I do it because I also know that anyone or anything can be ripped away from you at any time. But you, Becca…" He shook his head. "I can't—you're in, babe. You're past my walls, past my defenses. If I have to deal with that, so do you.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

The harder he ran, the more distance he temporarily placed between himself and his grief.

Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire Wond'rin' where in this world might you be And knowin' all the time you're still roamin' the countryside Do you still think about me?

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. Virtually everyone who has ever experienced grief mentions this phenomenon of "waves.

At a point during the summer it occurred to me that I had no letters from John, not one. We had only rarely been far or long apart.

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves....it obliterates the dailiness of life. .. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind.

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness

their suburbia house in Brentwood was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was not her decision, not her taste, a child claiming the distance all children imagine themselves to need.

We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections. . . . Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Yet on each occasion these pleas for his presence served to reinforce my awareness of the final silence that separated us.

And how could the Internet bring him to her, if he wasn't showing up on his own two feet?

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

Where did you go? To the end of the driveway, my mother says. I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out. I wince. Do you have to be quite so graphic? What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

Everything you're seeing up in the night sky happened thousands of years ago, because the light takes so long to reach us," Gabriel says. "I always thought it was so strange… that sailors chart where they're going in the future by looking at a map of the past.

You can't grieve something if you don't let yourself get close enough to care.