I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“It was my habit to lie to strangers, because how would they know the difference?” — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Summer sticks to her skirt sumptuously, in the shiny gray fabric hanging loosely from her curves. Her chestnut eyes, apparently hidden from… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
To put it simply, people who are strangers to me will come up and say, 'Are you that guy from that show?'… — Joe Keery Copy Share Image
The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The fact that we try to blend in with the world makes us strangers to ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
You can be tweeting strangers and saying, 'Don't say that,' but are you saying that to your friends? How about your mom?… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
If I don't call my mom back, she'll go on Twitter and say, 'Adam hasn't called me. I'm worried about him,' and… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers? — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I started out, I was very shy, I was terrified of meeting strangers and I hated the lime-light. — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Stop criticizing, start building people up, treat everyone equally, be positive, embrace those different than you, listen to others' ideas and thoughts...… — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
How do you feel now that we're acting like strangers? Are we moving on or just pretending? — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I think it's obviously an abnormal, pretty unnatural thing to be available to so many strangers, in the way that you are,… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family.… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Pret was a thing I did almost subliminally, often mainly for a few minutes of downtime, sat quietly alone in the middle… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
