Stranger Quotes - Page 34

• It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Moments

  Kenneth Oppel (2011). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Why don't we talk about your love life? Clary countered. "What about you and Alec?" "Alec refuses to acknowledge that we have a relationship, and so I refuse to acknowledge him. He sent me a fire message asking for a favor the other day. It was addressed to 'Warlock Bane' as if I were a perfect stranger. He's still hung up on Jace, I think, though that relationship will never go anywhere. A problem I imagine you know nothing about.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love Life, Thinking, Fire

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.971, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

  Harper Lee

  Empathy, Tonight, Proud

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• Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

  Pat Conroy

  People, Cameras, Lenses

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

  Shirley Jackson

  Fear, Poor

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• It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.

  Edith Pattou

  Differences, Duty, Walking

  Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.75, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

  Madeline Miller

  Brother, Important, Life Is

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.291, A&C Black

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• If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Eye, Hands

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• Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

  David Levithan

  People, Harsh, Approach

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

  James A. Baldwin

  Imagination, Forever, Secret

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• One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

  Jose Saramago

  Shows, Greater

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• Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

  Douglas Adams

  Eye, Cereal, Trying

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Cities, Mind

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• This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Giving, Forever

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

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• When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person.

  David Levithan

  Parent, Dawn, Want

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.155, Egmont UK

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• A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Beautiful, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Giving, Magnus Bane

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• She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

  Dan Brown

  Journey, Air, Silence

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.101, Knopf

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• If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

  James Lee Burke

  Tragedy, Skins, Who We Are

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Next, Compliment

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• First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

  Ally Carter

  Tails, Firsts, Coincidence

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• The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

  Tablo

  Kissing, Two, Burning

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• He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Children, Real, Romantic Love

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.314, Anchor

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• How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Lying, Easy, Our Lives

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.25, Anchor

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• Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

  Mitch Albom

  Sea, Miracle, Rooms

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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