Close Quote by Shannon A. Thompson

“Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.”

— Wally Lamb We Are Water

“You are closer than you think.”

— Joel Osteen

“but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.”

— Ann Brashares

“I try to be confident, always have, but despite my best efforts, sometimes I come off like I'm a total..." "Dick?" I finished for…

— Michelle Rowen

“He walked closer, not seeming at all offended by my loose speech. He just looked . . . thoughtful. It was an interesting expression on his…

— Kiera Cass

“The farther that one goes out (from himself), the less he knows.”

— Lao Tzu

“I didn't dare get close to people. I couldn't risk it.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“or less what I thought. He looked at me blankly and said,”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“For weeks I had mistaken his stare for barefaced hostility. I was wide of the mark. It was simply a shy man's way of…

— André Aciman

“You’d worry less about what they thought if you knew how little they did.”

— Mike Skinner

“We were too close, I thought, I'd never been so close to him except in a dream or when he cupped his hand to…

— André Aciman

“It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn’t either.”

— Maggie Stiefvater