Jay Asher Quotes

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.

Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did.

I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour

Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.

I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate. “Oh, Kitten,” he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. “You didn’t really think we were done, did you?