Stranger Quotes

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Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption. — David Levithan
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.… — James A. Baldwin
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. — Jose Saramago
Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. — Douglas Adams
[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands. — Jim Morrison
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things… — Arthur Conan Doyle
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try… — Albert Camus
there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger… — Neil Strauss
When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to… — David Levithan
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his… — Thomas Mann
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege… — Charles Baudelaire
Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats… — Cassandra Clare
She saved my life...and Iâ€™ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both… — Dan Brown
If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger… — James Lee Burke
I love your bracelet!â€™ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy… — Ally Carter
First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail — Ally Carter
The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in… — Tablo
He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are… — Mitch Albom

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