“The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.”
“He walked close enough to hold hands and far enough away that words could never repair the damage we'd done to each other.”
“So far away and yet you feel so close.”
“If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.”
“It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.”
“Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.”