Quotes About Familiarity

We all have that one friend that walks into your home like its their home

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Google earth view gives you the amazing chance to see amazing places all over the world, from the comfort of your own home. With this amazing privilege, what do most people look at? Their own house, their friends houses, and mostly places they have already been to.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Even the strangest situations become normal if one knows nothing else.

This is the thing about redheads, isn't it? No matter how long you've lived with them, you're always surprised when they turn and look straight at you.

Been here ever since, and it ain't all that different from home. S'long as I ignore the differences, hear?

We are the Blisses,' Dearest said, patting her hand. 'Nothing we do surprises people anymore.

Anything that requires energy, like being in the outside world, having people in her space, dealing with conflict, and interacting with others, requires energy output and so is draining. She likes the familiar (since these situations burn less energy), needs to ease into new situations, and may not be able to think or make decisions around too much stimuli or too many people.

Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter." "Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep." "No. It is like every morning when you wake up.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

Love is a product of habit

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

That last stretch of the journey from Toronto to Crow Lake always takes me by the throat. Partly it's the familiarity; I know every tree, every rock, every boggy bit of marshland so well, that even though I almost always arrive after dark I can feel them around me, lying there in the darkness as if they were my own bones.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?