Quotes About Familiarity

Better the devil you can live with than one you don't know.

When cleaning I do it the way people go to church—not so much to discover anything new, although I'm alert for new things, but mainly to reacquaint myself with the familiar. It's nice to go over familiar paths.

What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness. Familiarity can blind you too.

What is love?/One name for it is knowledge.

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

Home and I are such good friends.

It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy.

No, darling. We've always known each other in Tomorrow,' I said.

You'll get so tired of Blair Water — you'll know all the people in it — what they are and can be — it'll be like reading a book for the twentieth time.

I favor the smell of sweet-grass. It always makes me think of my mother." "She was fond of it?" asked Anne. "Not that I knows on. Dunno's she ever saw any sweet-grass. No, it's because it has a kind of motherly perfume — not too young, you understand — something kind of seasoned and wholesome and dependable — jest like a mother.

Having left Toronto on the morning train, they were in Charlottetown by mid-afternoon. Jane saw dad the moment she stepped off the train . . . grinning and saying, "Excuse me, but your face seems familiar. Are you by any chance . . ." but Jane had hurled herself at him. They had never been parted . . . she had never been away at all. The

It's been a long time since I've seen you, Palmer. But you're just the same, only more so.

it's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Rage had been almost my only emotion once, and it was still comforting in that dysfunctional way in which people will prefer something unpleasant, but familiar, to something pleasant, but unfamiliar.

how when you love someone, you take that person into your body, your fingertips predicting their angles and curves; how you smell like them in the morning.

Marsh looked at me sideways, causing a brief stir of familiarity. You liked the library? It was all I could do to keep her from bolting herself inside, Alistair told him. With mock indignation, I protested, I never even touched a book. I walked through and walked out. Her eyes were filled with an unnatural light, Alister confided in his cousin. I feared for my safety.

When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.