96 Quotes About Stranger

When we think about the people we trust most in our lives, we imagine a safe place to vent and a place to be heard. But what happens when a stranger approaches us with a concern or a question? Do we respond with caution or open up to someone who has no idea who we are? Stranger quotes can provide the inspiration you need. Here’s a collection of wise and helpful stranger quotes that will help you feel comfortable opening up to someone you don’t know.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You...
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. Truman Capote
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A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. J.D. Stroube
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
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A stranger may find beauty in you yet. Anthony T.Hincks
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Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family. Suzy Kassem
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And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd be as good, but I wouldn't, if I could. For the few that help deserve, have no need, or not the nerve, help from strangers to accept, plus from mine a few have wept. Wept from joy, or from despair, or just from my vengeful stare. Ways I have, to look at stupid, make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error, for of truth I am a bearer. Most decide I'm just a bear, mauling at them, - like I care. Will Advise
Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your...
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Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death. Sorin Cerin
If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in...
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If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead! Antoni Omeihe
We are loved way more by some of the people...
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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.
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Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger. Amit Kalantri
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Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She sank to her knees and began to cry in her terror. She wanted Gary.She suddenly felt strong arms around her. She bent her head to bury it in Gary's shoulder, trembling in the darkness. Whimpering like a small animal in a trap, she pushed herself closer to him and said in a choked voice, "I'm so frightened! "" I know, my love, " the voice said. "I'm so sorry you were hurt." She felt herself being pulled up to him, his grip around her tight. It was a strange feeling in this pitch-black hallway, where not even the light of the moon cast any illumination. The lips she touched were cold and yet they responded to her with an unusual warmth. His hands massaged her back. Something, Melanie thought, was wrong with that. The hands were too smooth, not like a plastered wrist would feel." Gary?" she asked, backing away. She didn't trust what she couldn't see." My love, " the voice whispered, "there is no need to fear now. I shall protect you from those who mean you harm. Clare McNally
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Um, thanks, ” Jackson told her. “And your name is…?”“ I’m Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf, ” she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached.“ Van Der Graaf?” Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn’t want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but… Van Der Graaf?“What are you laughing at?” Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. “I like my name. If you’re going to be a jerk, then I won’t help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care.”“… Harsh, ” said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something ‘off’ about her, something that Jackson couldn’t quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. “Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?” He couldn’t resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. “Who else lives here?” he urged.“ Me, myself and I, ” said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression . Rebecca McNutt
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On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk? He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles. And yet this person is the hero of his own life story. He is the love of someone’s life. And what he can do may change the Vera Nazarian
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Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. Henri J.m. Nouwen
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Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted. Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes? Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led.. and, of course, the quality of the pancakes. Zach Helm
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Although he was undeniably handsome, at the end of the day, he was still some random stranger, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, wanted to talk to me and who knew my name. The term ‘Stranger Danger’ flashed before my eyes! Therefore, no matter how hot he was, I wasn’t going to let my guard down…yet. Unknown
Saying that you do not remember something or someone is...
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Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We sometimes try to impress people we just met by...
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We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey. Agnes Chew
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And she called him a stranger. Whose name still echoed in her mind like a war cry. Who had seen each bit of her naked soul and knew how scarred her soul is. Whose reflection still stood, smiling at her every time she stood in front of the mirror. Akshay Vasu
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Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye contact and without condition. This is not the opportunistic sizing-up of sexual cruising; instead, it’s the felt recognition of the divinity and humanity in another individual. Alexandra Katehakis
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In the mirror we see a stranger, Not the person we were born to be, For we are all pretending, Just for everyone to see. Anthony T. Hincks
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Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart? Edmund White
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The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God’s mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men? Kazuo Ishiguro
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Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them. Amit Kalantri
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The world's not getting any stranger. We are! Anthony T. Hincks
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World is getting stranger and stranger... I think there is interesting perspective in the series "Falling Water". Deyth Banger
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Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions. Israelmore Ayivor
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Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake! Anuradha Bhattacharyya
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Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection Israelmore Ayivor
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Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend. Israelmore Ayivor
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It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger! Israelmore Ayivor
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Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say. Whose shadow mind is burningas he sits watching her handsand thinks how rare! to see a Romantalkwith no gestures at all. Anne Carson
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I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young people; I felt incomplete and more saddened because the one I wanted to see was buried. Phindiwe Nkosi
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It's sad that in a world of billions, people can still feel isolated and alone. Sometimes all it takes to brighten up someone's day is a smile or kind word, or the generous actions of a complete stranger. Small things, the tiny details, these are the things that matter in life – the little glint in the eye, curve of a lip, nod of a head, wave of a hand – such minuscule movements have huge ripple effects. Shaun Hick
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I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body. Fernando Pessoa
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A friend of mine gave me a rainbow and it made me happy. So, I in turn, gave it to a complete stranger and then it made both of us smile. Anthony T. Hincks
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A stranger is just a friend waiting to be let in. Anthony T. Hincks
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A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better. Debasish Mridha M.D.
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Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. John OCallaghan
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Don't let a stranger that comes to you leave empty handed without food, water, shelter, or word of encouragement. Whether you believe in God or s**t, it's a bad omen when you let a stranger that came to you left empty handed. Uzoma Nnadi
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A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him. Jostein Gaarder
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You may have told me your story, but you’re still practically a stranger to me. I don’t know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past. K. Weikel
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There’s an undeniable thrill about meeting a stranger and spending a few hours together, indulging in each other’s lives. It’s that spurt of saying whatever you want and leaving it behind with someone who’ll never look at you and think of it again. Danielle Esplin
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He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed Michael Thomas Ford
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When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers. Charlotte Lamb
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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it. Sarah Dessen
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Why do we believe one stranger and not another? Todd Strasser
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It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man. His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger. Edith Pattou
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The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being; of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame. G.k. Chesterton
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Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use. Amanda McCabe
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I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder. John Scalzi
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I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger. Unknown
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You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play. Aryn Kyle
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...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home. Robin Hobb
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Perhaps we all have a face behind a face… Good and the bad, happy and sad, sane and insane. We all have an angel and the stranger and we all have the choice! Nino Varsimashvili
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A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend. Paul Smith
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Do you know which is the greatest epic till date? K. Hari Kumar
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Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence. Paul Bowles
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What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him. Mihail Sebastian
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A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone. Mihail Sebastian
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All Ways listen to strangers; They may tell you when a spider is on your shoulder." donnie harold harris Donnie Harold Harris
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It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older. John Lanchester
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Later, I walked towards the dorm circle beside Alaska. The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just as they had at home in Florida. She turned to me as we made our way through the darkness and said, " When you’re walking at night, do you ever get creeped out and even though it’s silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?” It seemed too secret and personal to admit to a virtual stranger but I told her, “Yeah, totally.” For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “ Run run run run run, ” and took off, pulling me behind her. . John Green
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Close People Are That Closer, As They Can Share Everything With A Stranger But Not To The Really Closed Ones. Jay Patel
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Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... "You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger. Deyth Banger
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If you do not know you are in danger, you are that danger. You do not know me, but I come in peace; if you think that is strange, then you are the stranger. Unknown
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When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?” What will you answer? “We all dwell together To make money from each other”? or “This is a community”? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. T.S. Eliot
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An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night–wind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (“bleak, ” Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger–the one who speaks to nobody–warming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be a fire–crackling and blazing, laid with an impossible size log and roaring its great heart out up the chimney. And there should be some sort of cauldron, Kate felt, somewhere about–and, perhaps, a couple of mastiffs thrown in for good measure. . Mary Norton
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You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger. M.F. Moonzajer
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Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain... J. Limbu
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If you would seek to find yourselflook not in the mirrorfor there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... S I L E N I U S, ODES TO TRUTH Sidney Sheldon
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That stranger handed me a letter written in my beloved's tears. I opened it, and the letters faded away just like his love for me. Natalya Vorobyova
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Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting. Robert Ludlum
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For the ones who dream of stranger worlds. V.E. Schwab
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I had a dream about you. I know, I know, I have never met you, but I’m pretty sure I had a dream about you. I had a dream about someone I didn’t know, so it may as well be you. Ashley Kennett
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I had a dream about you… but I don’t know you…who are you? Rodney Jenkins
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I have never believed in supernatural until I fell in love with a stranger that made me do supernatural things. M.F. Moonzajer
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It takes us away from the world of strangers To a new world of laughter With time the whirled churning deep inside And why does the smile fades, as age passes? Dr. Chitra Navada
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Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them. Amit Kalantri
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A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge. John Fowles
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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger. Robert Fulghum
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Attraction is a funny thing. Women can be beautiful and still do nothing for me. They can be stereotypically sexy and I will still pass them over. They can look innocent and it won’t interest me, have a sassy attitude and I’ll be looking elsewhere. I get bored easily and am as fickle as April weather. Holly Stone
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Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest to me jabs her finger behind her ear and starts whispering to nobody.“ What’s wrong with her?” I ask Harley as he leads me to the table he was sitting at.“ Oh, don’t worry, we’re all mad here.” I giggle, mostly from nerves. “It’s a good thing I read Alice in Wonder-land. I definitely think I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole.”“ Read what?” Harley asks.“ Never mind.” All around me, eyes follow my every move.“ Look, ” I say loudly. “I know I look different. But I’m just a person, like you.” I hold my head up high, looking them all in the eyes, trying to hold their stares for as long as possible.“ You tell ’em, ” says Harley with another Cheshire grin. Beth Revis
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As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger. Erin Merryn
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Khalil Gibran
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. Annie Leibovitz
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For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
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Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Georg Simmel
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Never floss with a stranger. Joan Rivers
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Smile at a stranger. See what happens. Patti LuPone
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From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri