Distance Light Travels

Famous quotes containing the words distance, light and/or travels:

    “Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Jesus saw Lazarus.
    Lazarus was likely in heaven,
    as dead as a pear
    and the very same light green color.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.”
    —Francis Lockier (1668–1740)