“It's you my love, you who are the stranger.”

“Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

“Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“Pick me up, o stranger, it is no sin, so lovely is my smell.
Violet's a smile of those who in their graves now dwell.”

Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920) French poet

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

“Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

“When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author