Quotes About Familiarity

She realized suddenly that despite all the new exciting feelings - of autonomy of freedom - that she'd felt since she arrived, she'd been missing the simple familiarity that came with ... well, someone you understood, she supposed.

The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.

Yes, of course I know what that means." I have no idea what that means.

Será diferente cuando no sea tan novedoso, cuando no verlo todos los días sea la nueva normalidad, pero por ahora, sólo por ahora, anhelar tiene su propia especia de placer perverso.

Once upon a time I knew his face by heart. I had him memorized.

Even though we never dated, seeing John again is what I imagine seeing an old boyfriend feels like. A wishful sort of feeling. Familiar, but just a little bit awkward, because there's so much left unsaid between us.

Sure, I could just use a GPS, but I would feel silly putting in directions to go to the mall when I've been there a million times. It should come to me intuitively, easy, where I don't even have to think about it. Instead I worry over every turn, second-guess every highway sign—is it north or is it south, do I turn right here or is it the next one? I've never had to pay attention.

Thing feels good and normal and the same, which is a comfort.

I didn't fully comprehend what a big part of my life he'd become. He'd become so... familiar to me. And not he's just gone. Not gone, still here, just not available to me, which might be even worse.

and the whole drive home the air smells like Christmas morning.

She always says people's names like I should already know who they are.

Every schoolboy knows it.

it is easier for us to make light of things which we know well than of things which take us unprepared.

I knew him from one of my dad's parties, knew him better than I wanted to.

Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.

It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)

It is the second night," he said. "The dangerous night. The charm of the unknown is gone and the charm of familiarity has not yet come. We'll survive it.

Dem Soldaten ist sein Magen und seine Verdauung ein vertrauteres Gebiet als jedem anderen Menschen

Personne ne peut t'être plus étranger que la personne que tu as aimée jadis.

As in a great castle which has long contended with time, the mighty central mass of the donjon towered up intact and seemingly everlasting. But the outworks and the battlements had fallen away, and its imperious ruler dwelt only in the special apartments and corridors with which he had a lifelong familiarity.

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.

We're no kin," Thomas Hudson said. "We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)

It was warm and like the spring and I walked down the alleyway of trees, warmed from the sun on the wall, and found we still lived in the same house and that it all looked the same as when I had left it.