Family Quote by Peter Orner

“She was a stranger in a world of strangers and they were strangers she had left behind”

— Shirley Jackson

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create…

— Pattiann Rogers

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and…

— Nikki Giovanni

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

— Nikki Giovanni

“We live in a world where strangers see your gifts and those who know you can't get past the box you originally arrived in.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers…

— Paul Auster

“My mother told me that I shouldn’t trust anyone. I wasn’t to speak to strangers, or leave the hotel room, or get out of…

— Andrew Gifford

“Beirut’s enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

— Bernard Malamud

“ 'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's what.' Where I don't forget what I am,…

— Lisa Henry

I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody…

— Hope Jahren

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the…

— Donatella Versace