#stranger

...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

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

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at. ↗

— Celine Dion

#beautiful #cheering #everybody #hugging #i

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ↗

— Mark Twain

#make #sense #stranger #than #truth

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #his #honor #land #most

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#ask #because #come #dispute #friend

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ↗

— Stella Benson

#bond #cursed #families #family #jokes

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. ↗

— Alan King

#fighting #keeping #nature #strangers #us

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#called #freaks #garland #got #her

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#acutely #aware #because #cell #cell phones