Quote by Ellen Kushner

“Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers. Not to get to know one another, not to get close enough to damage the…

— Rod McKuen

“Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her,…

— Charles Dickens

“What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.”

— Anna Godbersen

“We stared at each other, bound by common experience, but each looking at the other through the steady crosshairs of inherent distrust.”

— David Grant Urban

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She was definitely more covered-up than the courtesans around him. But sometimes there was more allure in not seeing everything.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It was the worst kind of silence, but a good kind of closeness. These weren't her folk, but...they were, and maybe that meant that…

— Laini Taylor

“Try not to judge others. Because someone might have gone through something that you wouldn't have survived if it happened to you.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“They were all so jovial and relaxed with one another, fraternal even. Maybe I was envious of that. They had lives—that was evident.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see…

— Jess Walter