Close Enough to Touch Quotes

“Relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight, it's a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“And then I keep reading, anyway—but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“What is it about darkness that compels one to reveal so much?”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“To know if I'm alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“... kui ma üldse midagi olen õppinud, siis seda, et armastus ongi üks segane värk. See ei tule meie juurde kenas lehviga karbikeses. See on pigem nagu lapse kortsus rasvakriidikritseldus. Ebatäiuslik. Kuid alati kingitus.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“Nicholas Sparks is Shakespeare? Oh god, I think that’s blasphemy. He’s got to be rolling over in his grave somewhere.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“It occurs to me that it may very well be ego driven, some deep-seated desire to feel needed by someone—anyone—to stem the now quite regular feeling of being so utterly useless to everyone else in my life.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“Relationships are all about timing.” Because love—it’ll show up when you least expect it, when you’re not at all looking for it, in the middle of a small-town library with a wild-haired woman wearing a nightgown. When it comes to timing, love doesn’t give a flying fuck.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“I wonder if maybe mothers are always irritating, no matter how old you are. And maybe you love them anyway.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“(That sucks.) And I sadly laugh at how succinctly that sums it up.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“I know. But honestly? Sometimes it's the only word that works.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“And I wonder if this is what people mean when they say they're falling for somebody. That it feels like your stomach is actually falling out of your body.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“I sit back, pushing my shoulder blades into the cushion behind me, and delight in the rare feeling of something just falling into place. Instead of just falling.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch

“But of course I know that relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight. It's a thousand blows delivered over time--uppercuts, jabs, crosses--some you barely even feel. And then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened.”
― Colleen Oakley, Close Enough to Touch