Perfect Stranger Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Penelope King

#5. 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

#6. We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

Gordon Livingston

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

Mae West

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

John O'Callaghan

#12. I was in the midst of an ocean of my fellow-men, and yet a perfect stranger to every one.

Frederick Douglass

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

Olivia Cunning

#14. The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.

Bryant McGill

#15. He is both the Raffe I know and a terrifying stranger. He looks like a pissed-off demigod. I've only glimpsed him once in this perfect angel form.

Susan Ee

#16. 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

#17. Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Lytton Strachey

#18. Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Leslye Walton

#19. 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

#20. Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp it."
"What do you mean, girl?"
"I mean that people don't kill their butts. They are cruel to them, they frighten them, they rob them, but they don't kill them.

Robert Graves

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

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#22. You never buy a woman an appliance or anything to use for keeping house.

Kathleen Brooks

#23. It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

Claire Danes

#24. If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

Howard Mumford Jones

#25. He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then.

David Packard

#26. When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#27. Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

Eleanor Catton

#28. I'm a Native American actress.

Julia Jones

#29. Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.

Jeff Lindsay

#30. People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Neil LaBute

#31. 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

#32. Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense.

Nikki Rowe