Distance in Love and Relationships

Letters between Yorkshire and a city. Thoughts like vines reaching for someone far off. Love across miles, and what it costs.

The quotes

5 quotes, in the order they happen.

I think of thee!

Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love · distance

The first words. She cannot stop thinking about him. The thoughts grow like vines round a tree.

my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree

Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29: I think of thee! · romantic love · distance

Her thoughts are wild vines climbing him. Too many. They hide the tree.

Is your life more real because you dig and sow?

Dooley · Letters from Yorkshire · distance

He digs in the garden. She sits at a screen. She asks which of them is really living.

our souls tap out messages across the icy miles

Dooley · Letters from Yorkshire · distance · romantic love

Two people far apart, sending small messages. Not love. Not not love.

the waterlogged earth gulping for breath at our feet

Sheers · Winter Swans · romantic love · distance

A couple walk by a lake after a fight. Even the ground is struggling to breathe.