#closeness

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#happiness #imagination

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#honor #hurt #naruto #pain #life

Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#farsighted #love #love

You are closer to me than my breath, ↗

— John Speed

#love

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#desire #love #love

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#because #closeness #does #everybody #fake

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#brought #closeness #grievous #him #hope

People can misconstrue closeness for love. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#love #people

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#children #closeness #creates #family #forth