Far Away Quotes - Page 9

• He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him give, a smile that curved and softened the tight mouth, and warmed the ice-cool eyes; a smile that brought the blood to my face and made my heart turn over.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.338, Macmillan

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• This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Distance, Insomnia, Copies

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.21, Random House

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• Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

  Norton Juster

  Ignorance, Like You, Said

  Norton Juster (1961). “The phantom tollbooth”

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• Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dog, Dragons, Knives

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Feelings, Sorrow, Wish

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

  John Gray

  Love You, Kissing, Night

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• The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Beautiful, Heart, Sky

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.81, Melville House

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• He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls.

  Nelson Algren

  Wall, Fall, Dark

  Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.58, Seven Stories Press

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• Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pugs, Ugly

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Heart, Talking

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• You are my Guardian Angel, Maddy,” a voice said, but it was far away from her.

  Scott Speer

  Angel, Voice, Guardian

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• There’s a general rule that I always go by, and it’s that you fall for who you fall for. Whatever small issue you get hung up on, whether it’s because they’re shorter than you, younger than you or they live far away - if you really are crazy about someone, none of that matters.

  Taylor Swift

  Crazy, Fall, Issues

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• I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

  Veronica Roth

  Voice, Judging, Sound

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• Heaven was not so far away in the eyes of these people (the Maya), who believed that individual, civic and social truths could be revealed by consulting with nature: the shifting of the wind, the arrival of the rain, the appearance of the stars

  Anthony Aveni

  Stars, Rain, Eye

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• Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

  Dwyane Wade

  Son, Reality, Thinking

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• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Sri Lanka

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• When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Couple, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?

  Isaac Babel

  Dream, Heart, Play

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• Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

  Billy Joel

  Opportunity, Doors, Voice

  Song: An Innocent Man, Album: An Innocent Man, 1983

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• Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They're not just about contaminants on your plate. They're not just about the ice depleting. They're about the issue of humanity. What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China ... can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Impact, Keys, Russia

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• The Tao is near and people seek it far away.

  Mencius

  People, Effort, Taoism

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• I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months' time, I'll be far away and he'll be just a memory, but I couldn't stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Memories, Fall

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• My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Heart, Brilliant

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• Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Boys, Thinking, Giving

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• Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

  Marisha Pessl

  Couple, Ocean, People

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