“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing…”

“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”

“You are most likely to respect a stranger more than you respect your parents and siblings, the people whom you know inside out.”

“When it comes to strangers with guns,” I told her, “I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.”

“No man is more of a stranger to you than you are to him. Receive him with trust.”

“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.”

“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”

“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”

“Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?
Very nearly everyone, come to think of it…”

“The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know.”