Distant Quotes

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I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets, who ran to… — Kiera Cass
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from… — Paulo Freire
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Elif Safak
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and… — C.S. Lewis
The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what… — Cassandra Clare
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to… — Italo Calvino
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. — Brandon Mull
Then the angels, the demon, and the Nephilim flew to distant corners of the sky, leaving a moment's brilliant flash of light behind them, as… — Lauren Kate
I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden.… — Rumi
The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. — Dan Wells
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a… — Wendy Mass
The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her… — Paullina Simons
And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that… — Virginia C. Andrews
â€ŽAnd when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore;… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she… — John Green
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems… — Rick Warren
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the… — Gore Vidal
Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion… — Michel Foucault
You,â€ I said, â€œare sweet music in a distant room. — Patrick Rothfuss

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