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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.”

Children Real Past Dies Ability Blood Stranger Loved Ones Real Love Romantic Love Linked Lenses Tense Children Love Puzzled

Book:Americanah

Source: Americanah

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

Lying Easy Our Lives Stranger Versions

Book:Americanah

Source: Americanah

“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.”

Happens Sides Rooms Sea Miracle Appearance Stranger Score Stormy Stormy Seas Operating Room

Book:The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel

Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel

“It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.”

People Ifs Way War Facts Together Felt Sides Simple Forever Draws Stranger Closest Exhausted Jungle Closest Friends Separate Ways

Author:Marisha Pessl

“"What about him?" she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?" "I don’t want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I’m not interested in lips out of context."”

Want Guy Lines Answers Kissing Findings Standing Lips Stranger Attractive Lunch Not Interested Of Context Attractive Guys

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.”

Want Answers Kissing Lips Stranger Not Interested Of Context

Book:Fangirl

Source: Fangirl

“My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.”

Heart I Can Turns Blood My Heart Stranger Ripped

Author:Marie Lu

“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”

Dog Ought Shots Stranger Mice Candy My Dog

Book:Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.”

Said Book Stranger

Author:Daniel Handler

“Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.”

Feels Firsts Moments Three Feet Filled Distance Meetings Stranger Spending Uncertainty Staring Electricity Time Apart

Book:Champion: A Legend Novel

Source: Champion: A Legend Novel

“Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.”

Mind Book States Hate Sides Love Is Common Folks Stranger Indifference Misunderstood Flip

Book:Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel

Source: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel

“When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.”

Ifs Found Silence Spring Oneself Stranger Connected Core Silence Is Being Alone

Book:SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.”

World Made Hands Born Stranger Christmas Stable

Author:Christina Rossetti

“History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.”

Ifs Should Littles Stories Remember Born Memories Enemy History Dare Stranger Aliens Realms Nazi Abstraction

Author:Stephen Fry

“At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.”

People Trying Hands Seems Time Hope Community Violence Hatred Stranger Connected Admiration Short Time Random Violence

Author:Susan Sarandon

“It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”

“School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.”

Ifs Long Shows School Turns Waiting Learning Judgment Stranger Enthusiasm Submit Phony Unschooling

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!”

Funny Religion Religious Dog Moon Stranger Patriotism Bark Canine Dog Training Good Patriotic Barking Dogs

Author:David Starr Jordan

“Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.”

People Truth Fiction Truth Is Stranger Familiar Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”

Truth Fiction Truth Is Stranger Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Mark Twain

“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia”

Home Humor Funny Used Mother Friendship Security Havens Mom Friends Mets Stranger Australia Twilight Maximum Funny Mothers Day Funny Mother I Have No Friends

Author:Barry Humphries

“I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.”

Want Running Night Order Chance Sleep Business Kindness Tomorrow Trade Investment Investing Profit Stranger Obligation Agency Extras Cash Rating Buffets Investing Money

Author:Warren Buffett

“And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.”

Knows Love Life Secret Members My Family Stranger Make Sense Flaws Family Members Quirks

Author:Gaby Dunn

“For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.”

People Knows Done Marriage Lovers Stranger Passing Passings Unbearable Those We Love

Author:Frank Pittman

“If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.”

Source: Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg

“"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.”

Thinking Said Spiritual Spirituality Courses Existence Masters Assuming Stranger

Author:Anthony de Mello

“When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.”

Self Esteem Oneself Stranger Esteem Self Respect

Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“All the wild sweetness of the flower Tangled against the wall. It was that magic, silent hour.... The branches grew so tall They twined themselves into a bower. The sun shown ... and the fall Of yellow blossom on the grass! You feel that golden rain? Both of you could not hold, alas, (both of you tried, in vain) A memory, stranger. So I pass.... It will not come again.”

Feels Fall Hours Memories Sun Magic Flower Wall Grew Spring Rain Silent Stranger Golden Vain Grass Branches Tall Yellow Sweetness Alas Tangled

Book:The Katherine Mansfield notebooks

Source: The Katherine Mansfield notebooks

“If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.”

Ifs Knows Mind Accepting Enemy Stranger Checks Psychological Buddhist Rejects Narrow Minds

Author:Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

“The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.”

Knows Taken Humility Humble Stranger Mask Diverse Merciful Meek

Book:Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life

Source: Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life

“Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.”

America Remember Faces Strange Speech Stranger Immigration Denied Exile

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet

“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...”

Ifs America Nations Rights Privilege Stranger Immigration Welcome Merit Enjoyment Oppressed Participation Decency Bosoms Persecuted Propriety Rights And Privileges

Author:George Washington

“Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.”

Source: The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

“I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.”

Ifs World Want Mind Children Whole Spiritual Spirituality One Thing Faults Stranger Whole World My Children Peace Of Mind

Author:Sarada Devi

“Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.”

Looks Soul Moments God Faces Suffering Spirituality Religious Compassion Mystery Stranger Territory

Author:Krista Tippett

“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”

People World Love Two Honest Blame Stranger Betrayal Life And Love Saddest Shire

Author:Warsan Shire

“Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.”

Looks Ends Life Is Stranger Disaster Bars Familiar Happy Life Flirting Sleazy

Author:Ani DiFranco

“If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.”

Ifs Prayer Stranger Christian Prayer Revival In America

Book:Billy Sunday speaks

Source: Billy Sunday speaks

“Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.”

Wells Heart Soul Hands America Forever Train Stranger Driven Immigration Release Immigrants Richness Comprehension

Author:Anzia Yezierska

“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”

Men Important Literature Perfect Doubt Important Things Stranger Perceive Uncles Resemblance Mustache Mature Love Perfect Strangers

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.”

Justice Deals Diversity Social Justice Stranger Traveller

Author:Saadi

“Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.”

People Knows Way Life Ends Courses Lost Impossible Truth Is Stranger Happy Fragile Betray Rescue Burned Closest Simplest Life And Love Fragile Things Desperate Housewives

Author:Mary Alice

“Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.”

Men Mind Home Left Pleasure Gold Increase England Paid Slavery Stranger Rage Treasure Coast Forlorn

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.”

People War Country Facts Peace Acceptance Stranger Anti War Antiwar Passive

Author:Garet Garrett

“Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.”

Death Lying Suicide Stranger Command Obedient

Author:Leonidas I

“My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.”

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.”

“Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.”

Years Body Health Walking Majors Stress Aging Stranger Your Body Minors Autobiography

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?”

Source: Leaves of Grass

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”

Thinking World Children Reality Literature This World Stranger Thrilling

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography