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title: "1 Distance Moved Quotes By Cynthia Voigt"
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> [“He took his time getting to her, as if he was sure she’d wait, sure of his own strength to hold her, even at that distance. He moved like he thought she was afraid of him, too afraid to run.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/he-took-his-time-getting-to-her-as-if-he-was-sure-she-d-wait-sure-of/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

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## More by Cynthia Voigt

> [You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/you-must-not-let-yourself-become-too-respectable-keep-yourself-a/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“On a bright Sunday morning in the early years of the last century,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/on-a-bright-sunday-morning-in-the-early-years-of-the-last-century/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/people-had-no-more-choice-than-animals-about-the-burdens-they-carried/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [The worst things weren't outside of you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/the-worst-things-weren-t-outside-of-you/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“He knew it was perfect, and perfectly beautiful. He thought about how much she would like it. When he thought like that, happiness swelled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/he-knew-it-was-perfect-and-perfectly-beautiful-he-thought-about-how/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“You were going to fall, you always did, but you had to get up fast and keep going.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/you-were-going-to-fall-you-always-did-but-you-had-to-get-up-fast-and/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/even-the-bad-books-i-write-are-satisfying-i-m-my-least-critical-reader/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/people-can-be-unimaginably-foolish-and-they-can-be-unimaginably-grand/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“And so I was. I can put on the cloak of the world I find myself in, however I happen to find myself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/and-so-i-was-i-can-put-on-the-cloak-of-the-world-i-find-myself-in/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/the-people-they-had-been-last-summer-the-person-she-had-been-dicey/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“ I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/i-felt-that-the-world-itself-had-changed-and-that-it-would-never-be/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/kids-are-really-tougher-than-adults-but-we-tend-to-forget-this-in-an/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in her life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/mina-thought-to-herself-watching-her-momma-was-the-kind-of-woman-she/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“The No filled the whole air of the house. Every time she breathed in she breathed in that No.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/the-no-filled-the-whole-air-of-the-house-every-time-she-breathed-in/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

> [“Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-voigt/mina-wanted-some-of-the-kind-of-love-momma-gave-to-her-children-where/)

[Cynthia Voigt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-voigt/)

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