Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I…
— Koren Zailckas
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Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
— Morrie Schwartz
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But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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The truth, however, was stranger still.
— Dan Brown
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Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger…
— Suzanne Collins
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Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All…
— Henry Rollins
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Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible…
— Judith Martin
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The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still…
— Andy Warhol
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But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on…
— Sarah Vowell
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Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in…
— Daniel Woodrell
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Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.
— Daniel Handler
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‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and…
— Jodi Picoult
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I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with…
— Hanif Kureishi
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know…
— Lisa Kleypas
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These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall…
— Stephen Dobyns
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She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much…
— Cassandra Clare
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Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially…
— Maureen Johnson
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