Caused Quote by Tom Perrotta

“You were always miles away. Maybe you were just always meant to be miles away. The distance saw us together in a dream and…

— Courtney Peppernell

“I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.”

— Courtney Miller Santo

“He called and we saw each other from time to time, but the distance did what it always does - it grew us apart.”

— Danka V

“realized something had changed between us—he’d acknowledged, in a way, that our time together was limited, that goodbye was near.”

— Melanie Harlow

“Things just didn’t work out between us. Who knows, another time, another place, maybe things still wouldn’t have worked out.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I waited for him to come with me, to accept that we were now in this together again, that time and distance and uncertainty…

— Alexandra Bracken

“Maybe I just left it too late, and things changed too much for us to go back to where we were.”

— Kate le Vann

“There’s something about distance, being removed from what’s familiar, that lets things happen.”

— Nina LaCour

“Strange that at this moment, we're the closest we've ever been to each other, and yet for once you're not pushing back.”

— Jasmine Walt

“It might be better if we didn’t see each other for a while.”

— L.J. Smith

“Maybe that was the key to all good relationships, having oceans of time apart.”

— Emma Straub

“We’ve grown and changed, screwed up, but at the beginning of each summer, we found each other again. Or maybe we never really lost…

— Nyrae Dawn