Patti Smith Quotes

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

It's amazing how little you can see people but still stay in regular contact.

The game isn't the same when we're apart.

I was in a long-distance relationship. There's a lot of heartache in distance, and in proximity - those ideas you have when you're next to someone who you haven't seen in a month.

and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.

Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.