Strangeness Quotes (page 28)

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• running
• true
• lover

We that are true lovers run into strange capers. William Shakespeare

• physics
• strangely
• closing

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant Suzanne Collins

• crazy
• universe
• universes

The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange. Jack Kerouac

• infinitely
• strange
• infinite

I am infinitely strange to myself. John Fowles

• true
• heart
• rough

I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't... George Sand

• to live
• die
• saying

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live. Mark Twain

• love
• my love
• rare

My love is of a birth as rare. As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair. Upon Impossibility. Andrew Marvell

• coffee
• dark
• thinking

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. David Lynch

• vacation
• country
• house

The rituals surrounding vacations among Manhattan's wealthiest and best-connected citizens are strange and specific. By vacations I don't mean country houses, which are part of the regular ebb and flow of life and which are frequently subjects for complaint - The kids never want to go! The caretaker missed the roof leak! The pipes froze! - as though having a six-thousand-square-foot, cedar-shingled cottage on five acres overlooking the ocean is nothing more or less than a constant test of... A. Whitney Brown

• eyes
• watch
• clouds

With no small interest, Captain Delano continued to watch her---a proceeding not much facilitated by the vapors partly mantling the hull, through which the far matin light from her cabin streamed equivocally enough; much like the sun---by this time hemisphered on the rim of the horizon, and, apparently, in company with the strange ship entering the harbor---which, wimpled by the same low, creeping clouds, showed not unlike a Lima intriquante's one sinister eye peering across the Plaza from... Herman Melville

• age
• decision
• decision making

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them. Richard Russo

• effort
• men
• joy

Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away. Leo Tolstoy

• past
• thoughts
• strange

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• beauty
• beautiful
• god

Pied Beauty— " Glory be to God for dappled things-- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him. Gerard Manley Hopkins

• him
• words
• washing

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young. David Brin