Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.”

— Jarod Kintz

“He was my distant cousin. Not only was he 50 miles away and 50 years away, but he was just very aloof.”

— Jarod Kintz

“But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.”

— Galt Niederhoffer

“I instead was reminded of watching my cousins at Thanksgiving through my own front windows, that strange sense of distance, even where you should…

— Claire Messud

“He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want to hurt…

— Sherman Alexie

“The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.”

— S.E. Hinton

“Often, I felt there was something unsaid behind them, a deeper interpretation I was supposed to take from it and I wondered just how…

— Nicky James

“From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your aunt" and it…

— Jenny Zhang

“But it wasn't just the distance. It was what had happened to me since these days, those endless, quiet days when I thought my…

— Linda Holeman

“It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every…

— Jennifer Faye

“They sat far apart deliberately, to experience, daily, the sweetness of seeing each other across great distance.”

— Louise Glück