Quotes About Distance

But now she regarded her sister with curious distance. She'd been so actively excluded from everything important to her she felt suddenly, intensely alone.

The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the realization of time. (…) how sad and strange that I, Jenny Boully, should be the sign of a signifier or the signifier of a sign, moreover, the sign of a signifier searching for the signifies.

She couldn't even be jealous; it was something so lovely and far out of reach. It would be like being jealous of Amal Clooney.

I knew I had to be careful. I had to keep my distance. If she knew how much I still cared, it was all over. I wouldn't be able to walk away again. The first time was hard enough.

I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

Is this how people lose touch? I didn't think that could happen with sisters. Maybe with other people, but never us.

But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn't for me.

I know Josh and I will mend things, because we're neighbors, and that's how it goes with people you see a lot. They mend, almost on their own. But not so for Margot and Josh, with her so far away. If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.

Nothing like high school. It's a lot of pressure. And . . . I didn't think you'd be so far away." I

I thought Genevieve was someone I would know forever. Those people in your life that you just always know, no matter what. But it's not that way. Here we are, three years later, and we're worse than strangers.

Creo que ahora veo la diferencia, entre amar a alguien desde lejos y amar a alguien desde cerca. Cuando lo ves de cerca, ves quiénes son en realidad, pero también ellos ven quién eres tú realmente.

I realised it suddenly. I missed him. All this time. When you got to the underneath of it, there it was. There it had always been. And even though he was sitting there only feet away, I missed him more than ever.

You know the saddest part? Josh and I will never be friends like we were before. Not after all this. That part's just over now. He was my best friend." I

Even now, all these years later, I still read them—Conrad's letters to me when I was studying abroad in Spain. Just every once in a while, I pull them all out and sit down and read each one. I know them all by heart, but they still touch me, they still make me feel it all over again.… To think that once we were both very young, and very far apart, and still finding our way back to each other.

Time is the longest distance between two places. —TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

La distancia llegó lentamente, como el agua de mar llenando un bote, sin que ni siquiera nos diéramos cuenta. Antes de que uno lo sepa, se encuentra bajo el agua.

and awful. He never had anything to say to me, and I never knew what to say to him. Finally

But with me he's been distant. Like even though he's right here next to me, he feels far away. Unreachable.

The distance came slowly, like seawater filling up a boat, without us even realizing it. Before you know it you're underwater.

see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you. And

Tekneye dolan deniz suyu gibi, mesafe kendini yava? yava? hissettirmisti; biz fark?na varmadan. Iliskimizi kurtarm??t?k ama biz karde?tik. Karde?ler her zaman birbirlerine dönmenin bir yolunu bulurlard?.

People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong. Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.

That story made me feel like I knew you at least a little bit. But I don't know you, and I wish I did.

Already our paths are diverging, a little more every day the closer we get to August.