“The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”
“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?”
“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
“He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul..”
“But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.”
“So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope....”