“It’s painful, loving someone from afar.Watching them – from the outside.The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs…..They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all.”

“Although in two different cities, We had a candle light dinner together.”

“A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.”

“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”

“Friendships – and indeed most relationships – are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties… not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time.”

“Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time…where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you… you have no words for proof of reassurance, no tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping.”

“My mother always wanted to live near the water,” she said. “She said it’s the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”

“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

“Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.”