278 Quotes About Strangers



  • Author Megan Boyle
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    Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

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  • Author Raphael Bob-Waksberg
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    I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.

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  • Author M.A. Stacie
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    Each day we stood almost shoulder to shoulder, occupying the same space, breathing the same air, but we remained strangers.

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  • Author Nicole Krauss
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    . . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

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  • Author Melina Marchetta
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    You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that you’ve never ever seen before.Like they’ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people?

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