“Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus 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
I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“a total stranger one black day knocked living the hell out of me- who found forgiveness hard because my(as it happened)self he… — e.e. cummings Copy Share Image
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For the Romantic, it is only the briefest of steps from a glimpse of a stranger to the formulation of a majestic… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
“Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
