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“To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative - to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception - is worse.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

“We're strangers again, but this time with shared memories.”
― Nitya Prakash

“You can always tell something when a woman is overdressed---either she's an outsider, or she's insane.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Most people never find the time or take time out of their schedules to think about higher goals, their contribution to society, their surroundings, or the people they care about. They come into the world and depart from the world without bringing a smile to a stranger’s face.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“In a world where we spend ever more of our time staring at screens, blocking out even our most intimate and proximate human contacts, public institutions with open-door policies compel us to pay close attention to people nearby. After all, places like libraries are saturated with strangers, people whose bodies are different, whose styles are different, who make different sounds, speak different languages, give off different, sometimes noxious, smells. Spending time in public social infrastructures requires learning to deal with these differences in a civil manner.”
― Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

“Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.”
― Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence

“Two people being strangers can be the best relationship. They tend to value what they do for each other more and they can leave when they think they are being taken for granted.”
― Nitya Prakash

“They were strangers who had met in a chance encounter.
They had known each other before Life began. (310)”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“It wasn't wise to reveal one's real feelings to strangers. And nothing on earth was stranger to me than a friendly white woman.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“الغريب في الإسكندرية أنها تصبح عروس البحر الأبيض عندما يسكنها أهلها فقط .. ثم تتحول العروس إلى أرملة عندما تمتلئ بالغرباء !”
― مصطفى أمين, أفكار ممنوعة

“One little superstition of mine I hope you will indulge. I never meet with perfect strangers in desolate bastle houses or alarmingly named alleyways at twilight. This trifling quirk I developed shortly after acquiring a large number of enemies.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly Trap

“Sometimes the best conversations between strangers allow the stranger to remain a stranger.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

“It is easy to find from the statistics pertaining to crime rate in a country that crimes against women are lowest in Islamic countries where women are dressed modestly and covered in burka (veil) in public places. Appropriate dressing, particularly in public places and before strangers can to some extent prevent crimes against women.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“In that place, everybody was strangers. But somehow everyone had a face that was, somewhere etched in my mind.”
― Akshay Vasu, Between the Abyss and Paradise

“I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t have sex with strangers.��
Interview at Locus magazine, 2000”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“At the beginning, we were all strangers.
In the end, we all end up strangers.
Again and again.
It's a hidden memory somewhere in the Universe, somewhere in your eyes.”
― Tony Tzo

“It was like they were strangers. Maybe they were, again.”
― Sara Shepard, The Amateurs

“Even with imagination, there is still nation.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“You know India is as modern as western countries. People here sleep with strangers too. Of course, after marrying them.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Later, when all the air in the new life had become like it can be in a room where the windows are broken out and all the familiar faces have strangely drained into themselves, like water into worn out sand, Nina Alexandrovna suddenly realized that now it was impossible, forbidden, and foolish to be happy for someone else.”
― Olga Slavnikova, The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being

“I will always be remembered more by strangers than my own people.”
― Nitya Prakash

“We are the 2 am friendly strangers who give new meaning to loneliness.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Other than we’re complete strangers,�� I said softly.
“Everyone is, until they aren’t.”
― Beau Brown, A Husband for Christmas

“There is a message for all city makers here. It is that with the right triangulation, even the ugliest of places can be infused with the warmth that turns strangers into familiars by giving us enough reason to slow down.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

“On Adventure �� “Adventure�� is the word we give life-threatening, perilous situations when we’re sitting by the fire afterwards recounting them to our friends, family and skeptical strangers.”
― Marsha Hinds

“Consider how often you see young men in knots of perhaps half a dozen in lounging attitudes rudely obstructing the sidewalks, chiefly led in their little conversation by the suggestions given to their minds by what or whom they see passing in the street, men, women, or children, whom they do not know, and for whom they have no respect of sympathy. There is nothing among them of about them which is adopted to bring into play a spark of admiration, of delicacy, manliness, or tenderness. You see them presently descend in search of physical comfort to a brilliantly lighted basement, where they find others of their sort, see, hear, smell, drink and eat all manner of vile things.”
― Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age

“With Lundquist directing, the volunteers worked for the next three days around the clock. Most were strangers to each other, drawn together unexpectedly, and worked together for hours, diligently and peacefully. The formed a human chain, passing the books hand over hand from one person the the next, through the smoky building and out the door. It was as if, in the urgent moment, the people of Los Angeles formed a living library. They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do everyday.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“With Lundquist directing, the volunteers worked for the next three days around the clock. Most were strangers to each other, drawn together unexpectedly, and worked together for hours, diligently and peacefully. The formed a human chain, passing the books hand over hand from one person the the next, through the smoky building and out the door. It was as if, in this urgent moment, the people of Los Angeles formed a living library. They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do everyday.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“I had this horrible dream last night where hundreds of strangers were reading my private thoughts.”
― Nitya Prakash

“There are people who don't change their clothes for days, and then there are people who change themselves overnight, only to be strangers with us.”
― Nitya Prakash