Strangers Quotes

“Love doesn’t die all at once, or in big steps, he thought.  It dies in tiny pieces, with daily decisions that nip off bits of it like the edges of a living branch until you’ve cut away to the heart of the trunk and then that, too, is gone and there’s nothing left.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“It’s the nature of people who are guilty to find others with blame.  It’s the nature of humanity, all of us fallen and evil to some degree, that we seek a sinner upon whom we may cast the stones otherwise destined for us. ”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“Yes, there is an Easter Bunny.  Yes, Santa exists.  Yes, I’m sure everyone will treat you wonderfully at the new school.  Yes, the other kids will all like you. Yes, we’ll get out of this alive.  We’ll be okay.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“Jerry looked at her and for the first time he could remember, he didn’t see his wife; didn’t even see the memory of her.  He didn’t know what he saw.  And didn’t care.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“Only this miracle was a different kind of miracle.  A dark miracle. ”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“When did I stop talking to people? he wondered.  When did I stop having friends that participated in my life, instead of contacts that just existed in my phone?”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“Being dead is the closest thing to perfect that most people will ever be.  No lies, no secrets.  They are what they are and nothing more.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“Part of the American Dream, Jerry mused, is complete separation from one’s neighbors. ”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“It’s the nature of people who are guilty to find others with blame.  It’s the nature of humanity, all of us fallen and evil to some degree, that we seek a sinner upon whom we may cast the stones otherwise destined for us.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“Misery always weighed heavier when hope’s corpse had barely cooled.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers

“One of the hardest parts of being a father, he had found, was not the highs or the lows, but the fact that they came so close together. ”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers