Stranger Quotes - Page 24

• You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

  Chris Abani

  Kindness, Heart, Simple

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

  Timothy Keller

  Long, Way, Sticks

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• Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap

  Angie Sage

  Danger, Lure

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• Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Dust, Broken

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.166, eBookIt.com

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• Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me." Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure." People are strange when you're a stranger.

  Haruki Murakami

  Song, Real, People

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• Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

  David Benioff

  Editors, Needs, Fiction

  David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.90, Penguin

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• In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

  Anton Chekhov

  Lonely, Moscow, Rooms

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1930). “The plays of Anton Tchekov: pref. by Eva Le Gallienne”

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• Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. "More than anyone will ever know.

  Alice Sebold

  Dark, Missing, Ruth

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.

  Kate Jacobs

  Christmas, Eye, Winter

  Kate Jacobs (2009). “Knit the Season”, p.8, Penguin

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• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

  Victor Hugo

  Horse, Journey, Hands

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• I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

  Ann Brashares

  Mother, Ideas, Motorcycle

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• Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Frustration, Ideas

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, ch. 2, p. 24, 1961.

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• Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

  Alice Sebold

  Talking, Heaven, Coaching

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• She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Enough

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• I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fallen Angels, Good Things, Said

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

  Markus Zusak

  Cities, People, City Streets

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.472, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

  Susan Minot

  Felt, Ifs

  Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage

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• How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Marriage, Men, Intuition

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• Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Ideas, Pirate, Forget

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

  Brennan Manning

  Solitude, Identity, Juicy

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.39, NavPress

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• Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Faces, Forget, Born

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• People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

  Holly Black

  Real, Player, Games

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• Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

  Bob Dylan

  Tree

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• Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.

  Ishmael Beah

  Hurt, War, Trusting Each Other

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• For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Glasses, Unyielding

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, p.10, H. P. Lovecraft

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