Stranger Quotes

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Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets… — Cassandra Clare
So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made… — Ellen Hopkins
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. — Robert A. Heinlein
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother… — Maya Angelou
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for… — J M Coetzee
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who… — Sebastian Barry
It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect. — Mae West
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. — Truman Capote
I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I… — Che Guevara
He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in… — Robert Cormier
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things… — Charles de Lint
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a… — Kenneth Grahame
Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you.… — Milan Kundera
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger… — Deb Caletti
You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is… — Henry Rollins
Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet. — Laurell K. Hamilton
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could… — Kiran Desai
Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like… — Richard Bach
How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence… — David Levithan

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