I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove their own sanity. Once one member of the family...
I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes of the lepers at Chiengmai gave me the right to talk about it. To have seen! To have ...
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.
Maybe the key to moving on was distancing herself from Wes. Not all the way. Just a little bit. Enough to let someone else in.
I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.
...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...
In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.
They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.
The entire population of Blackfin maintained a wary distance from her, as though the skeletons in their closets were spring-loaded and ready to burst out onto the front lawn.
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.
Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.
Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
The key of life symbolizes the map of existence. Once you free yourself from all resistance, your path will become white for the remainder of the distance.
I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.
