Talking To Strangers Quotes

“To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative - to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception - is worse.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

“He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.”
― Alice McDermott, After This