Certain coincidences risk passing unnoticed; certain people have appeared in our lives on several occasions without our realizing it.

Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

I was surprised, as one is, I think, whenever the tenuous thread of one's life suddenly connects, as friends, people one would have thought strangers.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say.

There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth

I always have to get in character for Keeping It Real, so some people are surprised when they meet me in person,”

It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...

There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly — as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth — the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives

Politics sometimes plays strange tricks on you. “We were surprised, just like everyone else.

We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.