Quote by Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Sometimes, people need you and it's so scary you push it away when actually you want it to be closer.”

— Jessica Thompson

“It’s hard to put things behind us when they’re following us everywhere. Sometimes we need to stop and turn around and face those things.”

— Anni Taylor

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

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

— Hanif Kureishi

“And it seems to me that everyone is like me—they're all afraid of the slightest movement . . . Everyone's sitting all closed up…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It is not good to be so much away from one's own people. It is the sort of thing known to make one strange.”

— Tony D'Souza

“We do not like those who are completely available, who make themselves over to us entirely. They crowd us out. They make us feel…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“beware of those that seek constant crowds. they are nothing alone.”

— charles bukowski

“I guess that’s why I put those walls up. It’s easier to keep people away than it is to have them look at you…

— Melissa Collins

“You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”

— Morgan Matson

“It is like walking in a crowd. A foolish crowd of oddities in a corridor under an enemy city, without an idea of where…

— Emily Rodda