Quotes About Strangeness

Those moments of strangeness. Life is full of them.

then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was as if they were dancing. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance.

There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance. It robbed Phaedra of her breath.

Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.

Being very strange kept people away. And if people stayed away, you could never disappoint them.

El hombre es un extraño y un residente temporal. Su existencia es inefablemente hermosa... y peligrosa. Está colmada de misterios que suplican ser descifrados.

There's a strangeness in these hills that tells you not to pray to Jesus, he's not lord of this ground; drive on down to Blythe if that how you pray, Jesus and McDonald's have franchises down there.

Pero dentro de ella me sentí bien en el acto; creo que había olvidado lo bueno que era. O a lo mejor es que nunca había sido tan bueno, a lo mejor nunca había sentido tanto placer. A los cuarenta y siete años... La vida es extraña.

My eyes widened as I looked at him. 'Then you bit me, you weirdo.

Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.

Food seemed impossibly strange. Children thought I was a child and tried to play with me, but I could neither play nor work, I could only wonder why. Why do people live at all.

HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange.

Strange things have been spoken, why does your heart speak strangely? The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror.

Well, Kaleb's voice whispered in Nikita's mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out of us all.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.

The whole thing has the smell of the uncanny.

The girl could tell he did not like this man whose business was the uncanny.

He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?

Bagdad-on-the-Subway.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

Strangely, they seemed to like him, hold him in contempt, and fear him all at the same time. This confused me because I felt just about the same mixture of emotions for him myself. I had thought my feelings were complicated because he and I had such a strange relationship. But then, slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships. Only

It felt odd to have interrupted the life of someone she knew nothing about, to kill someone she had only just met, as though killing needed intimacy, deep knowledge of the other, to make it all right.