“The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!”
“You look tired.""Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me . . .”
“Be near me when my light is low and be near me when my heart is sick...”
“Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered.”
“You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they?”