Not That Close Like We Used To Quotes

#1. I close my eyes and listen to the ocean.
I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind would feel on my face and the sound of his voice screaming my name through his laughter. The waves would crash like applause. God, I remember when I used to be afraid of the ocean.

Hannah Moskowitz

#2. Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

Anne McKevitt

#3. After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

L.M. Montgomery

#4. I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.

Patrick Ness

#5. Mornings like this one were made for memories.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice ... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it.

Pat Robertson

#7. We used to be close. We used to be like brothers. And if you died ... it would be like a part of my family had died. And I don't think you realize that.

S.C. Stephens

#8. After two solid weeks of waking up in Damen's bed, wrapped in Damen's arms, you'd think I'd have grown used to it by now.
But nope.
Not even close.
Though I could get used to it.
I'd like to get used to it.

Alyson Noel

#9. Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Keith Ellison

#10. Just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him ... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#12. I'm never going to get used to that," he said, smiling.
"Used to what?"
"The way I feel like I'm going to explode every time you come close. The way my head fills up with just you when you do that.

Jus Accardo

#13. I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me

Matt Hardy

#14. The true Wonderland was not like that, he knew. It was as much shadow as sunlight, and its mysteries could only be unveiled when your wits were about used up and your mind close to cracking.

Clive Barker

#15. Everything is related to everything else and, in a way, simultaneously contains everything else and is contained by everything else. What is more, everything is in flux.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#16. I am designing the future on beer mats, like Churchill and Stalin at Yalta.

David Mitchell

#17. Listen Noah, I've had two helpings of flaming bitch this morning. Satan himself wouldn't fuck with me right now ...

Sophie Monroe

#18. All of our problems start in our minds.

Joyce Meyer

#19. The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.

John Barton

#20. I'm not bawling." "You were close." "You were being sweet." "Like I said, get used to that." "Then you were an ass." "You should probably get used to that too.

Kristen Ashley

#21. Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

Ovid

#22. I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

Sarah Dessen

#23. I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.

Sara Shepard

#24. People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.

Laird Hamilton

#25. I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

Banks

#26. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. You are part-human after all.

Phillip W. Simpson

#27. It's really odd to be up close to an icon like Bruce Willis. You're used to seeing him on a screen, 50 feet tall. To think, 'Hmm, I'm taller than you are' is just weird.

Luke Grimes

#28. Creativity is really the structuring of magic.

Anne Rush

#29. My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.

Ryan Sypek