“In a sea of strangers, you've longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“We have that feeling that life could have been other, different, better in a way impossible to articulate, yet we sense there was another road we missed.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.com
“There’s an undeniable thrill about meeting a stranger and spending a few hours together, indulging in each other’s lives. It’s that spurt of saying whatever you want and leaving it behind with someone who’ll never look at you and think of it again.”— Danielle Esplin, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feinr forever, but there's no such thing as forever, really. Everything is much shorter than that.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Each day we stood almost shoulder to shoulder, occupying the same space, breathing the same air, but we remained strangers.”— M.A. Stacie, amazon.com
“For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.”— Alexandra Potter, amazon.com
“'I'm not a stranger,' I said, and pointed to his book. 'I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.'”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“There's an opposite to déjà 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.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“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.”— Marie Lu, amazon.com
“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”— Victor Hugo, amazon.com
“But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No you didn't have to stoop so low Have your friends collect your records and then change your number I guess that I don't need that though Now you're just somebody that I used to knows”— Gotye, open.spotify.com
“We all start as strangers, but we often forget that we choose who ends up a stranger too.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“You hate yourself for it, but you crave the stranger’s unwanted touch because the fight left in you is a reminder that you haven’t been broken. You haven’t been broken.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com