We were as strangers, in the moment-as intimate as…

“We watched each other’s eyes. We were as strangers, in that moment — as intimate as strangers — for strangers know more of us,…

— M.T. Anderson

There are times when family are like strangers, and strangers are like family. Both sets of people are priceless.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“In some ways we were more remote than strangers because strangers at least have the possibility of yet unmade connections.”

— Jean Hegland

“She was a stranger in a world of strangers and they were strangers she had left behind”

— Shirley Jackson

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

— Gertrude Stein

“Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers. Not to get to know one another, not to get close enough to damage the…

— Rod McKuen

“It was my habit to lie to strangers, because how would they know the difference?”

— Laura van den Berg

“Ours is the fellowship of strangers who know a secret that we cannot express. We are both of us broken, shattered, hollow and alone.…

— Claire North

“Then when I’d thought nothing else could possibly startle or surprise me, the Lord Master had taken one look at Barrons—and walked away. That…

— Karen Marie Moning

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We're strangers again. Strangers sharing the same soul.”

— Pam Godwin

“Most of the strangers we fall in love with seem to act as strangers rather than being strangers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

— Bill Moyers

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to…

— Sarah Silverman

Now we know more about it and we teach our children not to get into cars with strangers but back then it was you…

— Boti Bliss