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1 " I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost "
― John Steinbeck , Travels with Charley: In Search of America
2 " You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. "
― Elizabeth Kostova , The Historian
3 " For Abby, " friend" is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse. " I'm friends with the guys in IT," she might say, or " I'm meeting some friends after work." But she remembers when the word " friend" could draw blood. She and Gretchen spent hours ranking their friendships, trying to determine who was a best friend and who was an everyday friend, debating whether anyone could have two best friends at the same time, writing each other's names over and over in purple ink, buzzed on the dopamine high of belonging to someone else, having a total stranger choose you, someone who wanted to know you, another person who cared that you were alive. "
4 " I don't understand humans." Caradoc shook his head. " It takes their brightest minds decades to plan an unmanned voyage to the nearest planet, which can take a year to travel each way. Yet they expect there to be aliens travelling distances it takes light decades to reach us, just for a weekend of bum fun with a total stranger without asking their permission, before dropping them off where they found them. They're just dying to believe the weirdest, least plausible things possible. "
5 " Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it. "
― Sarah Dessen , Lock and Key
6 " Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? "
― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird
7 " Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind. "
