"Edward Cullen is staring at you."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Almost everything strange washes up near Miami. "
— Rick Riordan

"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"'Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
- Don Juan"
— George Gordon Byron

"Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true.

She lived through the war. In 1959 she came to America. She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, with a daughter and a grand-daughter. She keeps herself to herself and smiles rarely, as if the weight of memory keeps her from finding joy.

Or that's a lie. Actually the Gestapo picked her up during a border crossing in 1943, and they left her in a meadow. First she dug her own grave, then a single bullet to the back of the skull.

Her last thought, before that bullet, was that she was four months' pregnant, and that if we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

There is an old woman in Miami who wakes, confused, from a dream of the wind blowing the wildflowers in a meadow.

There are bones untouched beneath the warm French earth which dream of a daughter's wedding. Good wine is drunk. The only tears shed are happy ones."
— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
"
— Elizabeth Taylor

" "'By the way'[Gabriel] said,' everyone esle had better keep out of here. After you spend so much time in lockup, you get to like your space. You get kind of territorial. I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt.' ... Gabriel gave [Kaitlyn] a long, measuring look. Then he flashed a brilliant, unsettling smile. 'You can come in any time you like'""
— L.J. Smith (The Strange Power)

""'Good night, Gabriel.' [Kaitlyn] said
You jerk
[Gabriel] widened his eyes. 'Don't you want to stay? It's a big bed.'""
— L.J. Smith (The Strange Power)

"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."
— Werner Heisenberg (Across the Frontiers)

"I tried to play it on the piano, but then I realized... I can't play the piano..."
— Nick about his attempt to figure out how his song goes

"After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue."
— Susanna Clarke

"Well. I think it's safe to say that, in my absence, the power grabbing and backstabbing and political intrigue has officially reached an all-time Otherworld high.
"
— Lesley Livingston (Wondrous Strange)

"Those who are not shocked when the first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."
— Niels Bohr (Volume II - Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge)

"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."
— Flann O'Brien (The Third Policeman)

"There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways."
— Richard Dawkins (Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder)

"The truth was stranger than the official fiction."
— Dean Koontz

"But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself."
— Susanna Clarke

"We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils."
— Arthur Machen (The Terror)

"Life is stranger than biology textbooks."
— David Rains Wallace (Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays)

"I am not what you see and hear.
-Hal"
— David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest: A Novel)

"His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?"

I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you."
— Lili St. Crow (Strange Angels)

"There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining?
Is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of hell a-glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?
Yes! The danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing!"
— Willy Wonka