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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
Sep 17, 2025
Children leave. And parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father. And he will always leave a light on for you.
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
For time is the longest distance between two places.
Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.
If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
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