“Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.”

“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you”

“No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.”

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”

“You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?"

"It's a distance that can't be measured."

"Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.”

“Never be afraid to tell me anything,” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.”

“But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.”

“Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?”

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

“No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.”