#strange

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#revelation #strange

People are strange . . . ↗

— Jim Morrison

#strangeness #weirdness #strange

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#science-fiction #stranger-in-a-strange-land #faith

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#voldemort #death

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#loss #strangers #life

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#divine #glories #like #marvellous #melody

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#being #being nice #business #clear #each

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#anyone #arsenal #article #bottom #call