#stranger

Day 72 I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work, letting everything happen. When I return, you’re touching my yoghurts, reading the ingredients, as though you are making them yours, protecting them in my absence and amusing yourself with the cherry-ness of them. On days like this, I want to take my strangers home with me. ↗

— Gemma Seltzer

#london #oranges #speaking #stories #strangers

Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ... ↗

— Frederik Peeters

#strangers #love

The kind of love which makes us stand against everyone and defend a stranger is the strongest one. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#defend #love #stranger #strongest #love

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ↗

— Robert Heinlein Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

#love #robert-heinlein #stranger-in-a-strange-land #inspirational

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#any #capable #demonstrative #durable #feeling

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#come #more #need #served #shall

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

— David Starr Jordan

#dog #moon #patriotism #religion #strangers

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly. ↗

— Haniel Long

#accosted #disposed #drama #friendly #him

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#good #had #heroes #himself #husbands