We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly. "
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees. . . Strangers are like friends
We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.
I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates. " Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.
Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.
I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.
Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.
A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.
It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.
We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
I count on the kindness of strangers.
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.