Stranger Quotes

“It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well.”
― Toba Beta

“Who was this stranger, and why had I chosen him, of all the men in this city, this country, the world, to be my saviour?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“So strange, to speak polite, normal words. Strange to wish to offer them, and to a stranger no less.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“In the course of my life, I see you as a guest. No, not a stranger. A guest. Someone we welcome wholeheartedly at the door. Someone for whom we prepare the most beautiful garlands for.”
― Ayodeji Ajagbe, Letters to Ìfẹ́

“When we confront a stranger, we need to substitute an idea, a stereotype, for direct experience. And that stereotype is wrong all too often.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking To Strangers: What We Don't Know About Strangers

“She'd already conversed with one stranger today, fulfilling her quota for basic decency. Being kind to a second one was beyond her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Sometimes talking to him felt like she was skating over a lake of thin ice. She could hear the cracks forming but was never sure where they were coming from, or how many fathoms deep she might be dragged before she could ever really get to know him at all.”
― Nenia Campbell, Raise the Blood

“I was born a ‘Woolyback’, I was raised as a ‘Scouser’, I became a ‘Guiri’ and I am now a ‘Haole’.”
― Steven Magee

“A stranger is a person in whom we have not yet found a part of ourselves.”
― Luigina Sgarro, il confine di ghiaccio

“Don't let him break your heart again. Take care of the animals and then come home. Treat him as if you're with a stranger”
― Sara Orwig, Reunited...with Baby

“Don't become a stranger for me, for in doing so, you'll make me a stranger to my own self.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“You’re just an unfortunate stranger who got caught up in things that are beyond his understanding, greater than the tangible world he touches. There is a thin veil that blinds your eyes to the things that happen right under your nose, things you cannot glimpse. But everything will be revealed to you soon.”
― Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, ريم

“The Dark Cloud
Is the need to prepare for every possible eventuality ahead of time
Is the shock that you go through if you trust someone and they betray you because they like to commit a spiritual crime
Is the anxiety you experience when you know that you’re in danger
Is the ordeal of a painful breakup where each person becomes a stranger”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“A man stares at himself in the mirror and peels away all the layers. But the person he sees doesn't feels like someone he knows. He feels like he is looking at a total stranger.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Don’t be in a hurry to make friends with strangers, as they may be your enemies.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“They say a chain's strength is defined by its weakest link. Love is similar: it fortifies you when present, but shatters you the moment it leaves.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“You know, when a beautiful bleeding woman shows up at your door, it's common courtesy to let her in or help her or something.”
― Allison Ivy, Inked in Blood and Memory

“Sometimes, you can sit with someone in complete silence, doing nothing at all, yet it feels like everything. Other times, you can do everything together for centuries and still feel like strangers.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“I hate now for men to dote in this way, the ones who don't know me. Their praise lands uncertainly in the air somewhere between the two of us, because it doesn't belong to me. I hate to hear them tell me what I am, even or especially when what they think I am is kind or brilliant or beautiful. I hate when they insist that I have no faults, that my laziness or violence or cruelty simply don't exist.

When they speak this way I am even less in my body than usual, feeling the sickness of a stranger look me in the eye and describe what is not there. What I am feeling is their disregard for my reality. I am being made to wear whatever particular fantasy they wish to project.

Each time it happens I have to restrain myself from screaming in their faces to prove I am not what they believe me to be. In these moments I am happy with my ugliness and want them to see it. Whatever badness I am I want to be it, to be as much like whatever my self is as possible; as far from the stranger's projection as possible.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“Nothing speaks louder than the silence shared by two strangers bound by each other's secrets.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“You are vile, you are loathsome to me!' she cried, growing more and more excited. 'Yout tears are just water! You never loved me; there's no heart, no nobility in your! You're disgusting, vile, a stranger, yes, a total stranger to me!' With pain and spite she uttered this word so terrible for her - 'stranger'.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“And you know what the best thing about the memories we created is? No matter where life takes us, you will never be a stranger in my heart—you will always be a part of me.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“He saw me as I was, and still he seemed to be choosing me. It was a basic thing, but I had never in my life been chosen before. You understand what that means? I'm saying here was this stranger, clearly as crazy as I was, this person who dropped into my life out of nowhere, and he was reaching out his hand. What could I do but take it? What could I do but choose him back?”
― Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

“Living with the longing for memories that have never been lived and dreaming with the nostalgia of a stranger who has never been met…”
― Sov8840

“There is an inherent weirdness to grief. It is such a strange ride, turning us inside out, making us feel like a stranger in our life. Nothing is normal.”
― Jan Richardson, Sparrow: A Book of Life and Death and Life

“Never show your toes to a stranger,
Who has already criticized your socks.”
― Charmaine J Forde

“And that's when we knew we had been right all along: Our parents and teachers couldn't have warned us about this beast, Ted Bundy, because before Rule's book, the words to describe the friendly-looking miscreant that was Bundy didn't exist. This man didn't fit into our sheltered world of bad people who were obviously bad people and good people who were "attractive", charismatic, charming, well-educated people. The equation just didn't work.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

“And that was always Ann Rule's point, hammered home by the reveal that even she had been deceived by this wolf in sheep's clothing. That perhaps those glaring red flags would have gone unnoticed or ignored in our desperate want for this m an to be what he claimed to be: nurturing, kind, safe. That the. men in our lives didn't have to be strangers to pose a threat to us. That "stranger danger" was a terrifying myth that you wouldn't even realize was just a stupid rhyme until the wolf was sitting right beside you.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

“One of the kindest things you can do for the stranger you once loved is to guard the memories and secrets you shared. In that silence lives respect for them, for yourself, and for the love you’re building now.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“If you truly knew yourself, you would find a stranger in your midst.”
― Anthony t hincks