Close

Famous quotes containing the word close:

    “Monte Beragon: When I’m close to you like this, there’s a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
    Mildred Pierce: No, what?
    Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy’s.
    Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.”
    —Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)

    “I close my eyes over the steaming
    tea and see God opening His teeth.
    “Oh,” He says.
    I see the child in me writing, “Oh.”
    Oh, my dear, not why.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Disclose thy Sun beames; close thy wings, and stay;
    See, see, how I am blind, and dead, and stray,
    O thou, that art my Light, my Life, my Way.”
    —Francis Quarles (1592–1644)