Quotes About Familiarity

Well, strangeness was hard to think about. Wonder grazes you like a bullet; it zips by and is gone, and all you really perceive is the zing as it goes past, or maybe the pain if it comes too close. It does no good to search for whatever it was, for it never lodges anywhere you can get a good look at it. The truly strange has no hooks of familiarity that one can catch hold of.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

Today, a friend's 3 year old said to me, I know you almost every time I see you.

I feel like I've known you forever. Like I've held you in my heart for centuries. (Talon)

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you're just as human as they are. That's when the madness sets in. They can't understand why you have more than they do when you're just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

Es difícil reconocer una cara conocida entre un grupo de desconocidos cuando no se espera

suente n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be in a room with them, without thinking, without holding anything back, or without having to say a word-to the extent that you have to remind yourself that they're a different being entirely, that brushing hair away from their eyes won't help you see any better.

And maybe one day we'll look back and wonder how we managed to live in the same house for so long, and never stopped to introduce ourselves.

It was a mystery to Roger how someone he knew so well could be such an impervious, impenetrable stranger.

We're home already.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

She still loves him but she doesn't trust him and she doesn't trust herself, and sometimes she thinks she went back to him only because it was comfortable and familiar

We are driving along a road I have driven my whole life. I still watch for the bends in the creek, checking to see how high the water comes up on the bank, I still hold my breath as we go around the blind turn, I can close my eyes and tell you where we are just by the way my stomach feels. I wonder if after I grow up and move away, if I came back would my body still remember this road, or would I have forgotten it?

Familiar ice stiffened Garrett's spine, and she let it freeze her professional smile on her face.