Quote by Jessica Thompson

“The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone.”

— Julie Kagawa

“YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“It's strange, isn't it, how we can push people away because we want to be near them? Isn't that the silliest thing?”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“No!You cant get this close to me and then push me away.”

— Courtney Allison Moulton

“We don't understand how much those small moments of closeness mean to us until they're taken away.”

— Cassia Leo

“Does it make you feel closer to them?”

— Amy Harmon

“You're afraid to get close to me.”

— Jaci Burton

“Maybe we both let our fears push each other away. But we don't have to do that anymore.”

— Jody Hedlund

“I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“How is it possible, that I’m this close to you and it’s killing me that you’re still so far away?”

— Tahereh Mafi

“If you didn't let people get close to you, they couldn't hurt you when they left.”

— Krystal Sutherland