Stranger Quotes - Page 33

• I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cat, Men, Bed

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

  Dennis Lehane

  Self Esteem, Worry, Important

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• There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Two, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.574, Modern Library

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• Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger.

  Linda Howard

  Laughter, Men, Names

  Linda Howard (2009). “Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Character, Thinking, Artist

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• "Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man."

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Passion, Cutting, Men

  "North and South". Book by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855.

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• It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

  Stephen King

  Care, Good Things, Hard

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Doe

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• We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

  Thomas Harris

  Children, Day Care, Guilt

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• Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

  Rachel Joyce

  Unique, Being Human, Dilemma

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• Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

  Miranda Hart

  Hands, Listening, Minutes

  Miranda Hart (2012). “Is It Just Me?”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Running, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books

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• One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

  Laini Taylor

  Rip, Sky, Two

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• For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

  Albert Camus

  Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?

  John Wesley

  Giving, Naked, Purpose

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• we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

  Kami Garcia

  Fall, Funny Relationship, Shoelaces

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

  Joss Whedon

  Logic, Stoners, Sketchy

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• perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

  Elif Safak

  Mind, Like Her, Speak

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• Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Selfish, Who I Am

  Jeanette Winterson (2004). “Lighthousekeeping”, Fourth Estate (GB)

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• Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Kindness, Hands

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

  Susanna Clarke

  Silence, Solitude, After Hours

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She had said she didn't feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one thing she was certain, and it was that she could never love, not like that. Trust a stranger with her flesh? The closeness, the quiet. She couldn't imagine it. Breathing someone else's breath as they breathed yours, touching someone, opening for them? The vulnerability of it made her flush. It would mean submission, letting down her guard, and she wouldn't. Ever. Just the thought made her feel small and weak as a child.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Lying, Mean

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• And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.

  André Aciman

  Regret, Heart, Men

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