Quotes About Distance

Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie.

Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.

There was something different about her, Jake had to admit. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie. Even when she took him, there was a distance between them.

Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go to them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.

But you've never even been as far as the Moon.

Her blue eyes capture the distance. -Sonya Cheuse

That was what I feared most: that he just wasn't excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward, I started seeing the evidence everywhere: in the way he didn't sleep facing me anymore, or the way he'd stopped asking me the questions he used to need to know the answers to, the way he stopped needing to tell me things in order for them to count.

É terrível saber tudo sobre alguém quando já não queremos saber nada sobre ela há muito tempo.

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she)

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she) —e. e. cummings

We were so removed from each other's actual lives that we told each other everything. Jules once compared it to how you confide in a stranger you meet on a plane. From the beginning, this is what we've been to each other: safe, airborne. Complete with a thirty-thousand-foot perspective.

That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.

Por eso hay que permanecer alejados de personas que tengan un aliento gélido. Su sola presencia podría apagar el fuego más intenso, con los resultados que ya conocemos. Mientras más distancia tomemos de estas personas, será más fácil protegernos de su soplo.

That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.

peor es el chile y el agua lejos! —

Kansas City Sunday, August 22, 1915 The country is flat and I can see as far as my eyes will let me.

On the train from Denver to Salt Lake August 25, 1915 Manly Dear, I wish you were here. Half the fun I lose because I am all the time wishing for you.

It´s hard to have you with me but not to be able to take your hand or kiss you -James

Why do you borrow such sorrows when they are far away, and I am right here?

Ronnie sat on the couch, as far away from him as she could get but still rather companiable. Cozier than I was willing to be with the son of a bitch. If I ever managed to get married and my husband cheated on me, it wouldn't be me to go missing.

Odhadovala jsem, že jsem mimo dosah, ale jistá jsem si nebyla. Jak velká je bezpe?ná vzdálenost od hada vÄ›tÅ¡ího než nákla?ák? O dva státy dál? Nebo o tÃ…â"¢i?

Our distance has lived in me like the aftermath of a bad dream-I carry it around, the knowledge that we were once close, that something was lost; it's the lingering sadness of unfinished business. (18)

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way—fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps. In the end it almost doesn't matter. They're just as gone.

He was fed up with me by then; I knew that: the way my sadness was a suit of armor. How securely I kept him out.