Strange Quotes - Page 40

• You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Desire, Lost, Found

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Joy, World

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Names, Howl, Howl's Moving Castle

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• Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

  Jeaniene Frost

  Care, Tongue, Bones

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• I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Hands, Break Even, People

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

  Jeanette Winterson

  New Beginnings, Dna, Rest Of Life

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• What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Angel, Night, Doors

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.195, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

  W. G. Sebald

  Cities, Numbers, Telephones

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

  Haruki Murakami

  Looks, Midst, Strange Days

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• What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Heart, World

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• There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.

  Helen DeWitt

  Nice, Believe, Love Life

  Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Car, Silence

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin

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• There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

  Denise Levertov

  Girl, Song, Moon

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky.

  Virginia Woolf

  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.82, Broadview Press

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• I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Shadow, Faces

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me." Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure." People are strange when you're a stranger.

  Haruki Murakami

  Song, Real, People

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• In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

  Tracy Kidder

  Order, Goes On, Ominous

  Tracy Kidder (2009). “Strength in What Remains”, p.111, Random House

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• It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Silly, Past, Laughing

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• When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Going Away, Looks, Imagine

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Believe, Ambition

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• It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

  Michael Jackson

  Long Ago, Whales, Missing

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• He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Sleep, Order, Law

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Rebecca”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

  Charles Nodier

  Fall, Add, Mystery

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• Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws

  Jim Morrison

  Angel, Wings, Ravens

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