“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”

“Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”

Scott Lynch (1978) American writer

“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”

Tad Williams book City of Golden Shadow

“They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

“When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica