Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time…
— Anton Chekhov
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Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.…
— Alice Sebold
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But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the…
— Kate Jacobs
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I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are…
— Ann Brashares
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born…
— Victor Hugo
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Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one…
— Joseph Heller
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Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered…
— Alice Sebold
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She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
— Markus Zusak
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...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
— Susan Minot
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how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...
— Daphne du Maurier
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Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of…
— Brennan Manning
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Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we…
— Peter S. Beagle
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People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign…
— Holly Black
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Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...
— Bob Dylan
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Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each…
— Ishmael Beah
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For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still…
— H P Lovecraft
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I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come…
— Charlie Brooker
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