The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
Lorna Luft

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
Jean Baudrillard

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
William Randolph

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Leo Rosten

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
Chester Brown

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Helen Hunt Jackson

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.
Michael Stipe

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
Phil McGraw

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.
Jill Eikenberry