A Quote by Kenneth Oppel

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Kenneth Oppel

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Become Had Moment Myself Stranger Though

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Kenneth Oppel
Canadian - Author
Born: August 31, 1967

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

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He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Truman Capote

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Robert Fulghum

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Zygmunt Bauman

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

Elizabeth Bowen

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

Barack Obama

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

Joseph Brodsky

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Robert Breault

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Juan Goytisolo

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

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