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I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move. — Cindy Crawford

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team. — Joe Morgan

I was so close to you that I feel cold near others. — Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business. — S. Truett Cathy

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. — Taylor Swift

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya — Harlan Coben

She didn't hesitate to kiss me back and I decided then and there that kissing Shaw was probably as close to heaven as I was ever going to get. — Jay Crownover

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place. — Jan Brett

No one had ever talked about me that way, like I was so close to perfect the imperfections were washed away. I — Nicole Williams

She'd forgotten to do the right thing for one day and that was it. life was shit sometimes, it really was. — Jennifer Close

I felt very close to God ... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees. — Armistead Maupin

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. — Leo Tolstoy

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive. — Louise Erdrich

of a runaway? Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the — Colson Whitehead

That was all she wanted. To be back somewhere where no one looked at her strangely, where she fit in. And she knew that place was New York. — Jennifer Close

Fear crawled inside him. The anger that was so close to the surface ripped at him with rabid teeth, but he managed to rein back the reaction. — Joey W. Hill

Traveller, let your step be light,
So that sleep these eyes may close,
For poor Scarron, till to-night,
Ne'er was able e'en to doze. — Paul Scarron

He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't. — Sarah Dessen

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God. — John Stott

Thinking about her, knowing that she was so close and completely out of reach just killed me. — J. Lynn

He also believed that loyalty was earned - sharing a bloodline didn't mean you had to be close. — J. Courtney Sullivan

He just wanted to stand close to her, touch her hair that was white as glacier milk ... — Janet Fitch

Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary This day sucks. — Jeaniene Frost

When he was this close to me, I could feel his palpable yearning. I could sense that gut-wrenching loneliness he'd suffered. — Kresley Cole

It was so close to his own thoughts - that everything he knew was gone, but that this was here, in its place, this one bright thing. — C.S. Pacat

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling. — Ione Skye

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character. — Tom Felton

He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go. — Joan D. Vinge

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. — Elizabeth Bowen

You used to be afraid to get so close to me," I told him, and he met my eyes. "That was a good instinct. — A.C. Gaughen

It was a well-known fact that Lorna was leaving in six months' time, since Lorna had been leaving in six months' time for close to twenty-five years. — Danielle Wood

A lawyer's answer ... so close to the truth that the truth was able to hide in its shadow. — Stephen King

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. — George McGovern

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing. — Casey Stengel

It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not. — Kliment Voroshilov

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find. — William Friedkin

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third. — Heather Brewer

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to. — Nigella Lawson

You make me so hot, Dawn. You warm me where I was cold once. It's like I'm melting right into you and want to get so damn close that we're one. — Laurann Dohner

He could not close his eyes and just walk by; that was a real monster his traitor mind had created, and it could really tear him apart. — Stephen King

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise. — Jewel Spears Brooker

All they needed to do was look up close at what it was they were afraid of and they'd probably realise that it wasn't so frightening after all. — Melina Marchetta

(She cupped his face in her palms.) They were so close now that his features lost distinction and all she could see was the feeling she had for him. — Rachel Joyce

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy. — Gloria Estefan

As my story came to a
close I realized that I was
the villain all along. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

For long I could not close my ears that night: I lay listening, I knew not what for. A scare was on me that made me dislike the dark, — J.M. Barrie

Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

She wasn't fine, not even close.
But she wasn't dead.
And that was a start. — Sarah J. Maas

It was as if he were so isolated that any close contact at all became a friendship in his mind. — Robin Hobb

And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes. — Lauren Oliver

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish. — Black Elk

I was born with eyes that can never close... — Joy Harjo

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time. — Lemony Snicket

I was a very close friend of Dash Snow's, so whenever I get a chance to revisit his work, that's always amazing for me. — Leo Fitzpatrick

He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them. — Julie Anne Long

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? — Linda Sue Park

It was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome. — Ivo Andric

Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease. — Yukio Mishima

Victory was close. Just one final push. "Send in the rest," I ordered. "All wings attack. Take that base down now. — Julie Kagawa

I could feel it in my bones that I was where I belonged-close to him. — Inger Iversen

It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at hand, within easy reach ... — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Close Scrutiny of the scriptures reveals that the kingdom was the only message Jesus preached — Sunday Adelaja

And I realize now that that was ... that's the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you're loved, let it wash over you — Esther Earl

I have lost three semi-finals at Newlands. I was hoping that last year would be a lucky number three. It was close, but we could not make it. — Schalk Burger

Sometimes love and hate were so close in depth that deciphering what you were feeling was impossible. — Alaska Angelini

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. — Lionel Hampton

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity. — Booker T. Washington

emotional and close to tears. 'Well, I'm here, as you can see.' Maddie hated that she was so raw. Nic — Abby Green

Fuck I was in heaven. I was also aware that I was pretty damn close to being assured a spot in hell. — Ella Frank

Something about him seemed crafted for her, and that thought made her face flame, like she was standing too close to a fire. — Marissa Meyer

At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up. — Tracy Chevalier

There were times when she stood so close that he was amazed at his own ability to keep his hands to himself. Moving — Marissa Meyer

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart. — Barry Eysman

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. — Bruce Cockburn

I was the classiest bitch I knew. And if I wasn't, I was definitely the Cassiest, and that was close-e-fucking-nough. "How — Max Monroe

He was made of fire and Emrys was right, I was made up of things that wanted to go up in flames whenever he got close to me. — Jay Crownover

And whenever I had menstral cramps, I could just pretend that Voldemort was close. — Jenny Lawson

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.' — John Grogan

It's no accident that I'd named my guitar after a boy. He was as close to a boyfriend as I was likely to get. — Sarina Bowen

You know how, on a bright day, you can close your eyes and see an afterimage of whatever you were just looking at? It was like that. — Stephen King

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it. — Arthur C. Clarke

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage. — Alice Cooper

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other. — Tyler Ritter

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup. — Lorrie Fair

Jessi: This is Jesus this is my new number Jessi: Jessi Me: I was shocked that Jesus felt like I was a close enough friend to give me his number... — Scotty Roberts

A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that. — Robert Ferrigno

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title. — Joel Parkinson

A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time. — Mitch Hedberg

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation. — Chuck Close

It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them ever again — Janet Fitch

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! — Shirley Manson

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success. — Thomas A. Edison

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting. — Baron Vaughn

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff. — Eric Close

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books. — David McCullough

And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us — Will Carleton