I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust. — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
“A man from the wood. A stranger from afar. He will break the curse by a hundred kisses...” — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart,… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted. George Saunders The… — C. Robert Cales Copy Share Image
A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things. — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
Help the stranger for it might be God, Jesus, or the Devil. If the devil is mad at you where else do… — Mike Brown Copy Share Image
“I'm just going to pretend that a very good-smelling, incredibly warm stranger is sitting next to me, a harmless stranger.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and… — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
Yes, today he is a stranger to you, / the day-night you capacitance lived in arms, who had to kiss you from… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Like all of a sudden I didnt fit in anywhere not at school, not at home. And every time I turned around… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best—how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal?… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Some people come up to me in public and they're like, 'Oh my God, are you Noah from TikTok?' It's so weird… — Noah Schnapp Copy Share Image
Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“They both continue to stare at each other, expressionless, motionless, in the weirdest standoff I've ever seen almost as if they're calling… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“You are free, said the stranger. Before I arrived there. Costume. I had a costume on though. I was curious: what his… — Kinga Fabo Copy Share Image
Codes and signals are as important as explicit messages, and the two are linked. The bore pressing someone to tell them 'where… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
