Stranger Quotes

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Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests. — Catherynne M. Valente
This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that… — Johnny Cash
We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The… — Janet Chapman
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… — Louis de Bernieres
A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we… — Stephen Elliott
Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a… — Jose Rizal
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get… — Michael Ondaatje
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has… — David Foster Wallace
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers. — Alexandra Potter
Wanderer: You don't really feel that way about me you know. It's this body... she's pretty isn't she? Ian: She is. Melanie is a very… — Stephenie Meyer
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. — Rumi
Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I… — David Levithan
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself. — Victor Hugo
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger. — August Wilson
There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that… — Nicole Krauss
They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to… — Ann Brashares
She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care. — Paolo Bacigalupi
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger… — Kathleen Norris
She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and… — Scott Westerfeld

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