How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.
—Sarra Manning in You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
—Willa Cather
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.
—George Bernard Shaw
It's been a lifelong problem of mine that those I've been closest to are the ones I've had the least influence on. My parents, my sister, my wife, even my cat—or maybe I should say especially my cat—have never really taken me seriously. That may help to explain why I finished up making a career of peddling my thoughts to the world in general. At least the world in general doesn't automatically dismiss anything coming from me, that is, so long as I say it in a neat epigram of 17 words or less.
—Ashleigh Brilliant