Distant Quotes

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Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments she fell asleep… — L.A. Weatherly
The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a… — Gregory David Roberts
Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird?… — Haruki Murakami
Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves… — Jim Butcher
By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as… — Cormac McCarthy
Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there… — Eoin Colfer
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and… — Thomas Hardy
After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant… — Joe Dunthorne
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,… — Virginia Woolf
Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only… — Antonio Machado
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain… — Cormac McCarthy
The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the… — Annie Dillard
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for… — Winston Churchill
Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound… — Lucy Christopher
[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart… — Maria V. Snyder
I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day… — Umberto Eco
One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the… — Diana Gabaldon
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know… — Jonathan Safran Foer
They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me.… — Lisa Ann Sandell
The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence. — Charles Simic

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