Stranger Quotes

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They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left.… — Kathleen Winsor
It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same. — Cherie Priest
. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass,… — Nicole Krauss
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a… — Nicole Krauss
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — H P Lovecraft
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can… — Nicole Krauss
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before… — Frederick Buechner
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton — Kate Morton
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of… — Andrew Sean Greer
Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole… — Andrew Sean Greer
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim… — Arthur Conan Doyle
My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who… — Kami Garcia
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so… — M. Scott Peck
Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a… — Sloane Crosley
I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea,… — Thomas Pynchon
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them… — Edith Wharton
IÂ´m a stranger in a strange land. — Carson McCullers
...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just… — Mitch Albom
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. — Diana Gabaldon
Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces. — Lee Child

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