“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
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“He lived in a strange, silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It's stranger than fiction. How you've decayed. It must be so lonely. Lost within your ways. — Five Finger Death Punch Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know why she was so attracted to this stranger, like a moth to the flame, but it scared her.” — Lindsay Chamberlin Copy Share Image
“Seeing how I've held your penis in my hand, I think that puts you firmly in the not a stranger category.” — Jessica Scott Copy Share Image
Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand dollars." I hear Lily's gasp of disbelief behind me. Oh fuck. "Fifteen" Twenty," counters Christian quietly. Twenty-five," the stranger says.… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It… — Edith Pattou Copy Share Image
Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in. — Maureen Daly Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Who says you dont get to meet God? Remember that helpful stranger? God was in front of you but you did not… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers… — Jules Feiffer 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
“A man from the wood. A stranger from afar. He will break the curse by a hundred kisses...” — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
“...true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.” — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“To talk to a stranger is like talking to the stars: it doesn't commit you.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy,… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image