“Diplomacy is nearly always settled by such proximity.”— Michael Hirst, Foxe, Philip Desmeules, imdb.com
“I love you so much, much, much that it just hurts every minute I’m without you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, theromantic.com
“What seems like a reasonable distance to one person may feel too far to somebody else.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“Discourse about a subject requires distance or 'objectivity' as well as proximity: the known has to be set off somehow from the knower.”— Walter Ong, amazon.com