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6ecbe95 Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. change-a-life compassion inspirational smile strangers Steve Maraboli
fe2280a There's an opposite to deja vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar. familiar strangers Chuck Palahniuk
a6f1724 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. generosity guests hospitality inspirational strangers Anonymous
28bc7d4 There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life! injury population strangers Ray Bradbury
3ada3b3 Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. foreigners home settling strangers Cormac McCarthy
de9d462 The city's full of people who you just see around. cities strangers Terry Pratchett
108a015 The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings. bullying change change-for-worse criticism emotional-turmoil failure flaws hatred heartbreak heartless hurtful i-miss-who-you-were loss love marriage missing-who-someone-was nothing puppeteer relationships scary strangers turmoil Gillian Flynn
c742bd0 "I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy." happy human patricia-highsmith silence strangers strangers-on-a-train terribly train truth Patricia Highsmith
163bc3f Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life. life strangers travel trust Paul Theroux
c5c7332 But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him. inner-voice inner-voicery invasion life lights mind patricia-highsmith self shocked shouting sounds strangers strangers-on-a-train train voice words Patricia Highsmith
db636c8 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. strangers Pat Conroy
1d9ae0f What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? creation mind nightp patricia-highsmith shadow sound strangers strangers-on-a-train thoughts train trickster Patricia Highsmith
742ac6e In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word means - the strangest people in one's life are the people one has known and loved, still know and will always love. Here, both I and the vocabulary are both in trouble, for does not imply . A stranger is a stranger is a stranger, simply, and you watch the stranger to anticipate his next move. But the people who elicit from you a depth of attention and wonder which we helplessly call love are perpetually making moves which cannot possibly be anticipated. Eventually, you realize that it never occurred to you to anticipate their next move, not only because you couldn't but because you didn't have to: it was not a question of moving on the next move, but simply, of being present. Danger, true, you try to anticipate and you prepare yourself, without knowing it, to stand in the way of death. For the strangest people in the world are those people recognized, beneath one's senses, by one's soul - the people utterly indispensable for one's journey. love people strangers James Baldwin
099112c Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous. melancholy sadness strangers the-blind-assassin Margaret Atwood
dc91d77 The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers, even to ourselves, and this struck her as being true. strange strangers unfamiliar Alexander McCall Smith
039ac4a The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair. dark sedaris strangers David Sedaris
91d54ae I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me. abstractions black care chuck hat i klosterman strangers the they-re wear when Chuck Klosterman
0c9c0bd Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said. strangers Cormac McCarthy
48bc4d0 "He turned to her and said, "About time," when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service." strangers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
93c1f42 Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with. parents strangers the-virgin-suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
1e88ee0 "An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they're from, their names, what they're thinking about at that moment, what they regret, what they hope for, their past loves, their current dreams ... and if they happen to be women (especially the young ones) then the urge becomes intense. love strangers women Gustave Flaubert
c24c669 In a world where we spend ever more of our time staring at screens, blocking out even our most intimate and proximate human contacts, public institutions with open-door policies compel us to pay close attention to people nearby. After all, places like libraries are saturated with strangers, people whose bodies are different, whose styles are different, who make different sounds, speak different languages, give off different, sometimes noxious, smells. Spending time in public social infrastructures requires learning to deal with these differences in a civil manner. civility difference public-libraries social-infrastructure strangers Eric Klinenberg
fee0a2d Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting--that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art--and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it a smile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort. book creativity curiosity inspirational joy life painting strangers writer writers-on-writing writing writing-life Yann Martel
1bbf0c6 "So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?" knowledge-of-people society strangers Ellis Peters
ca603ac They were my family, yet they were strangers. strangers Maria V. Snyder
6388a0b We shall meet, but as strangers. It is the end of an era. A whole part of my life is torn away. iris-murdoch parting sad separation strangers the-end-of-an-era the-green-knight Iris Murdoch
dbaa8b8 She shrugged. She glanced over her shoulder. I thought she was talking to me. Then Derek stepped into the doorway. she said to me. She aimed a pointed look his way. chloe derek home maya rescue running strangers Kelley Armstrong
f2baafe "Don't let strangers touch you." And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenager, who do you harm. It is always the ones closest to us: the suave chauffeur, the skilled photographer, the kind music teacher, the good friend's sober and dignified husband, the pious man of God. They are the ones your parents trust, whom they don't want to believe anything against." strangers trust Azar Nafisi
821dab3 When Derek hesitated, Chloe said, He scowled at her. she said. derek risk strangers Kelley Armstrong
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