Long ago Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.”

— Alice McDermott

“Occasionally, out of curiosity or goodwill, someone would speak to him, but his response would be so off the mark that they would disappear…

— Shion Miura

“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had…

— Susanna Clarke

“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.”

— Dr Samuel Johnson

“There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went deeper than words and set up…

— Arthur Gordon

“Isn’t it funny how sometimes you can instantly connect with people? How, despite being almost strangers, you can feel that you have known someone…

— Jane Green

“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange…

— Honoré de Balzac

“He never met a stranger. Every person in the world, to him, was just a friend he hadn’t met yet. He always saw the…

— Melanie Shawn

“His mouth has a story to tell, I’m certain of it. How can it be amused and sardonic, hard and inviting, all at the…

— Primula Bond

“A brief silence followed, everyone smiling with no direction, one of those awkward moments where families realize they are essentially a collection of strangers…

— David Gilbert

“We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is spoken.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no…

— Anna Quindlen