Passerby Quotes

“The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

“A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to 'weirdies' of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Danielle Reynolds had passed through so many towns that her footprints stopped leaving marks.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Taking Root

“I’m looking for you
in the bare corridor
where my shadow is the only passerby
harmonizing an unsettling whisper:
echoed through my chiming thoughts

From the poem 'Looking For You”
― Munia Khan