Quotes About Distance

Aeriel gazed at Irrylath: husband to her, but only in name. She dared touch him only when he slept.

Por que não escreveste nunca? Não é de te ler que mais tenho saudade. É o som da faca rasgando o envelope que trazia a tua carta. E sentir, de novo, uma caricia na alma, como se algures estivessem golpeando um cordão umbilical

A terra se via estar nua lembrando, distante, seu parto de carne e lua (...) A luz tombava ferida pingando como pulso suicida em minhas ocultas asas

Mulheres são como ilhas: sempre longe, mas ofuscando todo o mar em redor

The notion of the need to revise America's global role, to palliate Islam, and achieve diplomatic distance from Israel had become conventional by the time I arrived in Washington.

I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard's chair, a broken shell, gulls watching egrets, home an ocean away.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

Precum magne?ii cu aceea?i polaritate, cu cât încerci s?-i apropii, cu atât se dep?rteaz? mai mult. Sau precum atomii care se atrag unul c?tre cel?lalt, dar se resping când încerci s?-i pui unul lâng? altul. Ca dou? persoane prinse în u?ile turnante - oricât de mult dorim s? ne întâlnim, nu e chip s? se întâmple.

eight, nine kilometers—more than halfway!

If most auto accidents happen within five miles of home, why not move ten miles away?

silk handkerchief that erupted out of the breast pocket, an affectation he had adopted to distance himself from the Westminster hordes in their banal Christmas-stocking ties and Marks & Spencer suits.

IF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN God and man is even greater than we imagine," said Ryka, "how do we bridge the gap?" "We must learn how to serve," said Nouri. "But what can a man possibly do that would matter to God?" "It's not what he does that matters. It's how he does it." Nouri paused. "Service wears out our sharp edges. And opens the heart.

Each of us contains tens of billions of miles of DNA—enough for one hundred thousand round trips to the moon if you uncoiled each strand and placed them end to end

reflection?' 'He would not see his reflection presumably, since the light could never reach the mirror from his face if the mirror is receding from it at the same speed.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

The theory of six degrees of separation was never meant to see how many people we could find. It was a set of directions for how to find the people we have lost.

Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

simple, rule-of-thumb formula for determining length of the backstroke is one inch of backswing for each one foot of putt distance. For

patio. From where I stood, he looked like a figure projected on a screen, luminous, distant and larger than life. He seemed to me at that moment the sum of every missed opportunity in my life. I let the feeling pass.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn't matter if I will ever see you again. It isn't the morality, it's how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.

I listen to the line as it disconnects, to the last wave of electricity as it pulses from Maine to the Hoosier State, from her to me, and then wait for the thick silence that flows behind it.

Sara and I still find a way to talk for hours on the phone, or within the span of ten minutes somehow make it feel like it's been hours. Early in our relationship, when we lived apart for a time, we'd talk every night on the phone.