“The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!”

“Stay near to me and I’llStay near to you –As near as you are dear to me will do.”

“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.”

“Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered.”

“In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.”

“But how did you know where we were?" Annabeth asked.Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.”