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You're Just Somebody I Used To Know

We run the risk of ending up as strangers 
Kirsten Corley
August 17, 2016
“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, Ayiti
Tagged: Stranger, Touch, Feeling
“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, Les Miserables (Signet Classics)
Tagged: Stranger, separation, Love, star-crossed lovers
“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, Champion
Tagged: Stranger, separation, Distance, Love
“Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.”
— Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
Tagged: Stranger, Love
“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, Calling Romeo
Tagged: Stranger, Attraction, Love
“You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.”
— Robert Henri,, The Art Spirit
Tagged: Stranger
“Each day we stood almost shoulder to shoulder, occupying the same space, breathing the same air, but we remained strangers.”
— M.A. Stacie, Unwritten Rules
Tagged: Stranger, Closeness
“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, The Virgin Suicides
Tagged: Stranger, Children
“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, "Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" (All the Wrong Questions)
Tagged: Stranger, Friendship
“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, Give It Back
Tagged: Stranger, thrill
“You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.”
— Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories(Reading Group Guides)
Tagged: Stranger, comfortable, characters
“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, Katie in Love
Tagged: Stranger, Life, road
“In a sea of strangers,
you've longed to know me.
Your life spent sailing
to my shores.”
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure (Lang Leav)
Tagged: Stranger, Love, Desire
“Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.
Not to get to know one another,
not to get close enough to damage the heart
made older by each new encounter.”
— Rod McKuen, Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows
Tagged: Stranger, Damage, heart
“My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.”
— Marie Lu, Prodigy (Legend)
Tagged: Stranger, heart, Pain
“Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?”
— Gene Stratton-Porter, Laddie; a true blue story
Tagged: Stranger, Love, Painful
“When our lives revolve around someone, they don’t just stop doing so even if all that’s left is some semblance of their memory.”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
Tagged: Stranger, Love, Memory
“We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger too”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
Tagged: Stranger, Love, Memory
“If this were love now how would I know? how would I know?
Feel like a stranger”
— Grateful Dead, Feel Like A Stranger- 2015 Remastered Version
Tagged: Stranger, Love
“If we bump into each other
On a crowded street
It’s not us no more
It’s just you and me”
— Marc E. Bassy, Marc E. Bassy
Tagged: Stranger, You And Me
“And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.”
— Simon & Garfunkel, The Dangling Conversation
Tagged: Stranger, Conversation, Love
“It’s amazing to think how quickly people can go in and out of your life–people who used to mean everything can turn into nothing.”
— Alivia Hall, You Were Once A Lover, Now You’re A Stranger
Tagged: Stranger, Amazing, Nothing
“Every now and then we meet someone who may end up becoming a big part of our life – and with this, we run the risk of ending up as strangers.”
— Alivia Hall, You Were Once A Lover, Now You’re A Stranger
Tagged: Stranger, Amazing, Nothing