9 Perfect Stranger Quotes

#1. I could see her smile. I wished I hadn't because it was the kind of smile she never gave to me. It was a smile for a boy who wanted to know her and never would. A smile for a girl who wanted to be like her and never could be. A smile for a perfect stranger.

Nova Ren Suma

#2. If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.

Ivor Bulmer-Thomas

#3. Amy dragged her eyes over Sethe's face as though she would never give out so confidential a piece of information as that to a perfect stranger.

Toni Morrison

#4. Sometimes a beautiful woman just needs a hard, slow fuck against a wall with a perfect stranger. I understand.

Olivia Cunning

#5. Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

John O'Callaghan

#6. Trying to have your first book read when you're a perfect stranger feels like waving at people, in a dark room, when everyone is looking the opposite direction!
Painfully frustrating!!!

Charles Bonnaire

#7. I don't take gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody is perfect.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#8. I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

Brian Andreas

#9. The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

Maurice Sendak

#10. It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

Mae West

#11. But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light.

Julie Otsuka

#12. To me you are detestable, disgusting - a stranger, yes, a perfect stranger!' She uttered that word stranger, so terrible to herself, with anguish and hatred.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. I stood there, shocked. I'd never hugged a perfect stranger before, but maybe this was how people in California did things.

Penelope King

#14. The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger
so it be done for love, and not forostentation
do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Gilbert K. Chesterton