Getting Close Quotes

“When you move away from one thing, you approach something else! If you move away from goodness, you get closer to badness, if you get away from the city, you get closer to the forest! Moving away is actually getting closer, it's all about where you approach!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Probably because I was afraid to get too close to anybody. Because getting close to people only leads to eventual pain."
His words from earlier in the day came rushing back to me. To be perfectly honest, kissing you was probably a mistake on my end, too.
Was this what he'd meant by that?
"So," I said, trying to make sense of everything he was telling me, "for the past hundred and fifty years or so, you were a jerk to keep people from getting close?"
He raised an eyebrow. "I don't know if you can really describe my behavior in the past tense like that."
"You haven't been a jerk to me."
He gave me a small smile. "I suppose that's true." His gaze softened. "I haven't been tempted to be an asshole to you even once."
I didn't know what to do with the look he was giving me. It was too much, too warm. I couldn't look away. "Does that mean that you don't like me enough to worry about losing me?"
Even as I said the words, I knew it wasn't true. An expression I didn't recognize crossed his face. "No," he said. He gathered me even closer to him. When I didn't resist, or move away, he tipped my chin up with a finger so I had to look him in the eyes. "That isn't what it means at all.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One